Step by step instructions to PLANT AND GROW SWEET POTATO

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Begin the Slips 

Sweet potatoes aren't begun by seed like most different vegetables, they're begun from slips. Slips are shoots that are developed from a develop sweet potato. You can arrange slips from a mail request or Internet list or you can begin slips from a sweet potato you purchased at the store or one from your garden. In the event that you purchase a potato from the store, make certain to see whether you're getting a shrub sort or a vining sort.

To begin your slips, you require a few solid, clean sweet potatoes. Every sweet potato can create up to 50 slip grows. To make grows, precisely wash your potatoes and cut them either down the middle or in expansive areas. Place each area in a container or glass of water with half of the potato beneath the water and half above. Utilize toothpicks to hold the potato set up (Image 1).

The slips require warmth, so put them on a window sill or over a radiator. In half a month your potatoes will be secured with verdant sprouts to finish everything and roots on the base.

Root the Slips


Once your sweet potatoes have sprouted, you have to separate them into plantable slips. To do this, you take each sprout and carefully twist it off of the sweet potato. Take each sprout and lay it in a shallow bowl with the bottom half of the stem submerged in water and the leaves hanging out over the rim of the bowl. Within a few days roots will emerge from the bottom of each new plant. When the roots are about an inch long the new slips are ready to plant. To keep your slips healthy be sure to keep the water fresh and discard any slip that isn't producing roots or looks like it's wilting. 
Plant the Slip 
Utilizing a little hand trowel, burrow a gap around 4" or 5" profound and 3" wide. Place one slip in each gap with the roots pointing down. Position the slip so the base half will be secured with soil while the best half with the greater part of the new leaves is over the ground. 


Precisely fill the gap with earth so you don't wound the new plant. Sweet potatoes don't care to be wounded or knock around excessively. When you have totally secured it with soil, delicately press the plant and encompassing earth to set the plant and to evacuate any residual air pockets. Proceed with a similar route until the point that the greater part of your slips are planted.

Water, Water, Water


Once all of the slips are in place water them. You'll need to give them a thorough soaking until all of the surrounding dirt is wet. Stop watering before your mound starts to erode. New plants, like slips, need to be watered everyday for the first week and every other day the second week. Each week the watering will get a little farther apart until you're watering once a week. If the ground is very dry or you've had a lot of rain, you may need to adjust this schedule in your own garden. Sweet potatoes can withstand drought but they'll produce less, so make sure you water them during the hottest part of the summer. 

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