Comments on: let there be sweet potatoes: how to plant them

By: Margaret

Margaret — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:16:10 +0000

Hi, Ohaider. I have not seen it done with cut-up sweet potatoes, but with whole ones put in a heated bed inside a greenhouse or some other heated propagation set-up so that the soil stays 75-80ish. This Purdue University pdf explains. You bury the whole potato, and keep it warm (in the north this requires the heating of the propagation bed) and eventually get the shoots. I have also seen the water tactic, partially submerging the whole potato in water.

By: Ohaider

Ohaider — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 20:33:46 +0000

Can you please explain how to cut a sweet potato to get alot of slips without putting in water but planting in the soil directly?Thanks in advance

By: Margaret

Margaret — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 13:14:24 +0000

Welcome, Rachel. Why not? As you say, they will be beautiful in the meantime. Mine are starting to perk up.