Sweet Potato House

by | Apr 16, 2018 | CobraHead, Gardening, Vegetable Growing

I’ve been starting my sweet potatoes from sprouted old roots rather than starting from new potatoes for quite a few years, now. It’s a close to fool-proof method. Here are 25 sprouts in a soil box. I removed the sprouts from the mother plants and cut them into handleable sections before shoving them into the soil. Note that many of the sprouts have already leafed out while still attached to the mother root. Some, however, are just pink sprouts that will quickly...

Extra Early Sweet Potato Starts

by | Jan 13, 2013 | CobraHead, Gardening

I had two sweet potatoes left over from last year.  I had used them to grow cuttings for last year’s garden. They were starting to shrivel up but both had put out numerous long sprouts.  The sprouts were rather anemic and one plant had an aphid infestation, but I thought I’d give a try to saving cuttings from both to get a real head start on having lots of good rooted slips ready to go into the ground in late May. Sweet potatoes are tenacious at...

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