Questions tagged [sweet-potato]
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How do I grow sweet potatoes in a pot?
I planted some attractive sweet potato vines in a 6 inch deep pot -- about 1.5 ft in diameter. I didn't expect them to grow extensively. However, with watering regularly, they certainly are growing like crazy. I'm wondering if I should take the time…
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How can I grow my own sweet potato starts?
I have always used pre-grown sweet potato slips, but since the source of sweet potatoes I have been using is unreliable, I am looking for how to grow my own in fairly large quantities. How should I do this if I am using a cold frame?
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How long does it take to start sweet potato slips?
@Om Patange asked this in a comment on this sweet potato question and I'm curious about the answer:
How long does each step [in starting sweet potato slips] take? I ask to know how long before spring I should start the process so that I have…
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Why does my sweet potato have stunted growth with wide, flattened stems and dense leaves?
My sweet potato plant has a severely widened and flattened stem and grows like a band, with dense leaves and stunted growth. What is wrong with it?
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First sweet potato crop -- Now what?
OK, so, I just harvested my first batch of sweet potatoes:
(Holy crap, there are few things as satisfying as going on a treasure hunt in the dirt and pulling out a big ole hunk-o'-dinner!)
But...now what? I'm just a novice gardener and confess that…
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How do I start sweet potatoes off?
Do you have to plant the sweet potatoes first and make sprouts, then cut vines off of these sprouts and put them in water? Can you just cut your potatoes in half and put them into water and grow slips from these?
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How far do potatoes really need to be from tomatoes to prevent disease/blight?
How far do potatoes really need to be from tomatoes? Is ten feet with a row of peas in between sufficient?
Also, do sweet potatoes count as potatoes?
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Sweet potato leaf disease?
I managed to get some slips started from a store bought (treated) sweet potato in May this year. Took a very long time to get going but eventually got 3 slips started. One of the three has two leaves affected by what looks like a powder, but it is…
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Sweet potato variety identification
That's how they look like just after harvesting. Flesh is light yellow, after cut fresh tuber in half, milky juice appears (it's also visible on damaged roots on pic below).
Slips before moving outdoors:
Tuber grows:
Vines are not able to climb.…
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White skinned sweet potato is too young to eat?
It's spring here in Australia and a scrub turkey has just dug up my beautiful sweet potato patch and began pecking at the tubers underneath. I'm contemplating digging them up to eat and pulled one out to inspect. It looks relatively mature to my…
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Possible to grow sweet potatoes in towers?
This year I will be planting potatoes (Yukon Gold and Russet) as well as sweet potatoes.
This coming weekend I will be building so-called "potato towers" for the Yukons & Russets using the designs prescribed in this YouTube video. I purchased actual…
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What is this plant? (sweet potato?)
A long while ago, I planted what I'm pretty sure was the head of a sweet potato that started growing.
The plant is still small but growing, and it has some small fruit-beginning (all green, but one which is red), but it really doesn't seems like…
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Sweet potato - leave in the ground for winter
Last year, after grow season ends, I found some tubers which were not harvested, after 3-4 weeks, during plowing, middle of November, after first frost and everything harvested in my garden. Found tubers were in very good condition.
As I am getting…
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Sweet potato - very large leaves - overfertilization?
My sweet potato plants got very large leaves, size is almost the same as my hand size.
It's "White Triumph" variety. Afaik, sweet potato leaves are much smaller. Possible they have been overfertilized or it's normal for that variety?
I'm afraid they…
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Something eats my sweet potato leaves
Something eats leaves, mostly youg ones, any idea what's that?
I can't identify any pests when looking closer.
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