How to Grow Sweet Potatoes winter project can be done indoor. It can create warmth and joy for the whole family.
If you have ever tried planting potatoes; then you would already knew that, the young plants appeared on the tubers from the sprouted eyes are 'Slips'.
When these slips are rooted; they would grow into matured plants; and they could produce your table potatoes.
Sweet potatoes are the same as white potatoes. You can learn about slips growing by either using only one portion of the fruit; or using the whole fruit.
Project Purposes: Learn about soil-less gardening
Learn about how to maximise your time, space and resources.
Project Materials: *A clean top portion of a sweet potato *Rain water or tap water *Re-usable shallow trays
Sweet Potato Supplier: From the school desserts cooking class or from the store
How to Grow Sweet Potatoes Tops
1. Place the top portion of the sweet potato under either natural or heated room temperature 20°C for one day.
2. The next day, rinse it and set it into a shallow tray of rain or tap water.
* Three young plants were transplanted to the greenhouse raised bed on 29-5-2012 (picture 17).
* On 24th June they were stronger and bigger (picture 18).
* The leftover young plant together with the fruit (picture 19) were transferred to the outdoor grow bed (picture 20) for further growth.
How to Grow Sweet Potatoes
If you are short of time; you can try this soil-less vegetable gardening method.
In
this way, you can either start your gardening in a greenhouse after the
young plants are strong and steady; or move the tall sized plants
straight to the outdoor grow box; or planting sweet potatoes in plate when the weather is perfect.
When the plants get the essential warmth, they would grow supper fast and healthy. And they would ignore all kinds of insects.
How to Transplant Slips
Cut off the young sweet potato plants with their attached white roots, one by one carefully; and insert them into a rich and good drainage greenhouse vegetable grow bed when the spring frost is over.
Set up an effortless four season vegetable gardening project for seniors gardening or at your home school program?