Growing sweet potatoes in sand and sawdust? : r/gardening - Reddit
2016年3月6日 · At the same time, one year one of the roots got past my bed and into hard, compacted soil and produce sweet potatoes there as well, albeit rather small ones. I have no clue. Every year I try and get better results and this guy seems to have gotten tremendous results from planting his sweet potatoes in sawdust and sand, which seems bizarre to me ...
How to Make a Potato Barrel - Dave's Garden
2018年3月26日 · Growing potatoes will find their way out and slowly take over the outside of the barrel. Just make sure your holes aren’t so plentiful that the structural integrity of the barrel is compromised, or such that all the soil washes out when it rains. Consider growing sweet potatoes in a barrel as well. In this case, you may try simply growing one ...
Growing and Propagating Ornamental Sweet Potatoes: Save them …
2010年2月21日 · Ornamental sweet potatoes are very forgiving. If you goof and let the roots dry up, just put the tuber in a fresh glass of water and it'll start growing again. Little nubs will soon appear on the top part of the potato. It's fun to watch them unfold tiny leaves and start stretching into sweet potato vines!
Growing sweet potatoes in northern New England - Dave's Garden
2009年3月5日 · How sweet it is: Growing short-season sweet potatoes by Greg Wingate IF PEOPLE HAD TOLD ME SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO THAT YOU COULD GROW SWEETPOTATOES IN CANADA, I'D HAVE THOUGHT THEY WERE PULLING MY LEG. At the time, my gardening mindset placed sweet spuds just this side of pineapples and …
The Sweet Potato History, Uses, and Culture - Dave's Garden
2012年10月12日 · Growing sweet potatoes. Those living in warmer climates can grow their own sweet potatoes. They need between 80 and 120 days to mature, depending on the variety. Long, hot, dry summers are preferred and they need to be harvested before first frost. Sweet potatoes are not grown from seeds or from chunks with ‘eyes’ like the white potato.
Advice on sweet potato growing in water? : r/GardeningIndoors
2021年12月28日 · There is a sweet potato vine that will only ever grow vines, it is just a cousin of the edible sweet potato. If you just cut up a sweet potato then that's not it. It's sold as an annual and will root really easily in water with no additional stuff. And the vine is a very aggressive grower so I'd just toss the sweet potato chunk and buy the vine.
Sweet Potatoes! Is this a decent haul for starting with 8 slips?
Looks like a good harvest to me. I am about to dig up my main sweet potato plot in the next week or so. I am hoping to get at least 50ish pounds from about 8-12 slips that have engulfed my garden. I planted them originally in about a 4x6 area but they have spilled out to covering everything. I grew 50 pounds of potatoes for 5 lbs of starters ...
Help, I’m growing sweet potatoes : r/garden - Reddit
2024年6月11日 · Just so there's about two inches of soil over them. If any of the sprouts are long enough, let them peak through above the soil a bit. Some people will cut a sprouting potato into chunks and plant each chunk separately, and some people will just plant the sprouts. I've had the best harvests by planting an entire sweet potato.
How many sweet potato slips can be planted in a 20-gallon grow …
2024年4月7日 · I grow sweet potatoes in four 20-gallon grow bags each year, usually with 5 slips in each one, four arranged around the perimeter and one in the middle. When I try to put more slips than that together, the resulting sweet potatoes are all very small even though I'm careful about using very loose soil. Four per bag would probably be better.
Any tips on growing sweet potatoes? : r/gardening - Reddit
2023年10月13日 · Gotta be honest, I don't see any problems with your sweet potatoes. There might be some fusarium wilt on some, but you can cut that out and use those sooner. I'm not seeing the insect damage either. Just looks like natural growth deformities. Insects have never bothered by tubers (knock on wood), but voles have been a different story.