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If you have a garden or trying to build one, growing sweet potatoes could be an interesting choice. They are not just need a low maintenance, but delicious and can be sold with a good price too. If you have the key elements required for sweet potato growth, a harvest is almost guaranteed. Learning how to plant sweet potatoes can be as quick and easy or regimented as you want it to be. There are a couple of different methods you can use in planting sweet potato slips. The warm soil needed during the growing season can be simulated with the use of hot boxes or black plastic spread over raised furrows in temperate zones. You may want starting soil trays for the slips to root in for about 6 weeks before planting them in the area they will finish growing in.

After the preparations are ready, you might want to ask your family members, friends, or your neighbor to help you planting the plants. It will be more fun with more people. But of course you should remember that sweet potatoes are not grown from seed. Sweet potatoes are grown from starts called slips. Slips are the 3 to 5 inch vines that sprout from one end of a mature sweet potato. Techniques for getting a sweet potato to sprout and grow are many and varied. When you go about deciding how to plant sweet potatoes in your garden, it is recommended that you purchase starter sweet potatoes from a farm store or grange. Another option is buying several sweet potatoes from your local organic vegetable outlet.

There are many methods to grow sweet potatoes in your garden. You always can choose the most suitable ways for you. Here are some recommended ways that suggested by sweet potatoes expert. Some recommend soaking the potato and then laying in a tray of moist potting soil, others say put the potato in the pantry until it starts to sprout then put in soil and cover it until the green tips are barely seen. Others simply put the seed potato in the soil and cover it with an inch or two of soil. Keep the soil damp but not wet. Add more soil as the vine tip grows to get the maximum root system going. Snip the slips from the potato when they are around 5 inches long and plant in starter soil or directly in the ground if the weather and soil is warm enough. Water consistently until 6 weeks before the first frost is expected. Lift the tubers before the frost. The leaves of the vines are also edible and taste something like spinach. Pinching them off throughout the growing season for meals will not hurt the plant.

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