Growing Sweet Potatoes Garden

Growing sweet potatoes vegetable plants can help you to fertilise your school organic garden beds in an inexpensive way.

Sweet Potato plant is a perennial. It comes with large, tuberous roots, and creeping stems.

This potato plant´s Morning-Glory a-like leaves are running freely along the ground. So, you can use them as a ground cover; if you wish.

Sweet potato plant seldom produces flowers in the cold location; so you can only enjoy the edible green leaves; and the aromatic potatoes.

This root crop needs a very long, dry and hot growing season. Therefore; you have to think about how to grow them efficiently; if you are situated at a cold area.


In order to experience the success; it is better to do several experiments to discover the possibilities with a short growing season; before you start planting them.

Growing Sweet Potatoes Plate

The Benefits of Planting Sweet Potatoes

Growing Sweet Potatoes Possibilities

If you could not provide a good, warm, south spot for these sweet potatoes plants; you can also grow them in a less warm, but dry, good drainage; sandy soil at the north side of your garden.


If you are situated at a warm location; a good deep soil would drive the roots downward, and the result is long, spindling potatoes.

If you are living in a cold location; container growing may be best suitable for a short warm season. So, the potatoes might be short and compact.

Harvesting sweet potatoes while growing, before the danger of a killing frost touches the vines. Do the same as white potatoes; let the roots lie out to dry in the dark after digging.


Propagation can be done by cuttings, sets or slips.

                      
                     Project Awareness

• No matter how much cleaning job you have done on the greenhouse tables; there are still minute insects eggs in the soil could survived over the winter.
  
  
  
• When you are growing the plants in raised bed, you can guide their vines any way you wish. Take care not to break them.
  
  
  
• When you grow sweet potato in a rounded plate; you are actually restricting the plant for growing too wild. You can guide the vine vertically. And you can harvest your organic potatoes easily without digging.
  

Try growing sweet potatoes for table use; and or for the whole year through delicious sweet potato bread, custards, glazed potatoes, jelly, or pies?

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