Planting Sweet Potatoes

The How Do Gardener ^ | June 8, 2022 | The How Do Gardener

[orsonwb]

Planting Sweet Potatoes. How to Grow Sweet Potatoes. Learn everything you need to know in this Complete Guide to Planting and Growing Sweet Potatoes with step by step instructions on Slip Preparation, Soil Preparation, Planting, Fertilizing, Watering, Weed Control, Insects, and Diseases.

[orsonwb]

A lot of good planting information. Sounds like sweet potatoes might be good for Texas now, even with 100 degree heat.

[MamaB]

A small town, Vardaman, MS, west of my hometown grows a lot of sweet potatoes. That was a part time job for students decades ago, setting out the plants. A relative of my dad grew a lot when I was young. We love our sweet potatoes.

[I-ambush]

I hate sweet potatoes. I have hated them since being forced to eat “canned yams” at school lunch in grade school.

[FatherofFive]

I’ve tried a couple times. The local rabits always eat the tops.

[SisterK]

also, sweet potatoes are not so good to eat freshly dug
they should be allowed to sleep for a month after digging

[SisterK]

canned yams are really squash

really

[waterhill]

Have an air fryer? Sweet potato fries are pretty awesome!

[waterhill]

Have an air fryer? Sweet potato fries are pretty awesome!

[Rebelbase]

Alright! Another victim of public school lunches.

[RatRipper]

A good baked sweet potato smothered in butter is one of my favorite dishes. I like them candied also with a little cinnamon sprinkled on. They are far better than school lunchroom quality yams . . . yuck. I don’t like those either!!!

[winterystorm]

I love those sweet potatoes too.

[z3n]

You don’t grow sweet potatoes from eyes like you would with russets?

[SisterK]

I love sweet potatoes. I can no longer grow them as they take a lot of room. These days my garden is not so big.
The leaves are also edible and delicious. IIRC I would sometimes feed the leaves to my pigs.

[lucky american]

peel and slice 4 sweet potatoes.
1 cup brown suger.1 cup white sugar, 1tsp cinnamon, 1/2 tsp nutmeg, 4 tlbs. butter. Put in heavy pan, heat on medium low, cover , cook until tender. Do not stir.
Yummy 😋

[waterhill]

Easier than regular potatoes. Cut slips

[waterhill]

Ping

[TexasGator]

“canned yams are really squash

really”

Not.

[TexasGator]

“Have an air fryer? Sweet potato fries are pretty awesome!”

We deep fry then air fry leftovers.

[Oberon]

Sweet potatoes are a good way to grow a large amount of nutrient-dense calories in a package that will keep at room temperature for months. Good prepper food.

[SisterK]

You don’t grow sweet potatoes from eyes like you would with russets?

I have only grown them from slips. But the beauty of growing from slips is that you get a lot more "starts" from one sweet potato than you do from one irish potato.