Growing Sweet Potatoes? * OUTRAGE....or not*

[Dace]

I am thinking about starting a couple of large pots to grow some sweet pots.

From what I read, 3 slips per pot is the max....but does that mean I would harvest only 3 spuds per pot? Hardly seems worth it.

Thoughts?

 

[miss_thenorth]

I haven't grown them yet, (although I have a few SPs in water with a few slips started), but my understanding is one slip will produce a bunch of sweet potatoes. so if you do it in a pot, make sure the pot is big enough.

 

[Okie Amazon]

You will need a good-sized pot. IIRC, the last time we did SPs, we got a yield of about 8-10 good-sized potatoes per plant.

 

[Wifezilla]

You will get about 5-10 potatoes per plant depending on your growing conditions and the space. About half will be a good size with some goofy long skinny ones and small ones making up the rest.

I grew some last year in an old little tykes toy box filled with dirt and also feed bags filled with compost and topped with a little soil.

Here is some of my crop

 

[AL]

do you plant SP the same as regular ones? I bought a flat of started SP plants, but I have no idea what to do with them

 

[Wifezilla]

You plant the regular potatoes first since they like cooler weather. You plant sweet potatoes later. They like hot weather and warm soil.

 

[me&thegals]

do you plant SP the same as regular ones? I bought a flat of started SP plants, but I have no idea what to do with them

No, you plant sweet potato plants, called "slips." Not just chunks of sweet potatoes, though, like regular potatoes. They like warm, soft soil. Good luck! Google could give you more details than I have.

 

[Dace]

Thanks everyone!

Wifey, did you have trouble curing them? I read they need to cure for a week or two in high humidity with temps around 80-90. Not sure where I would put them!

 

[Wifezilla]

You need to cure them for long term storage. Since we didn't have a lot of potatoes, we had no trouble using them up

I will have to get creative if the new slips I ordered do well. I am going to be up to my eyeballs in purple sweet potatoes....I HOPE!

 

[Dace]

I went in search of SP slips and guess what?




THEY ARE ILLEGAL IN CALIFORNIA!!!!!

Apparently the SP farmers lobbied to stop the sale of slips because it was impacting their sales!