Planting Just pulled 2 sweet potatoes out of pantry...
- Thread starter Yarnball
- Start date
Loretta Van Riet
Trying to hang out with the cool kids.
Uh, pot of what?
greysage
On The Level
And what is DWF?
Loretta Van Riet
Trying to hang out with the cool kids.
So... to clarify. A sweet potato from a Dallas Fort Worth pantry is trying to escape? 
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
Might want to change pots to potatoes in your thread title, you'll get more responses that way.
Raggedyman
Res ipsa loquitur
stick them in a jar of water. break off the green shoots when they are about 3". stick those shoots in another jar of water and root them. when you have some descent roots pot them up and keep them well watered. plant these when they are vines about 10" long. plant 1 set every 18" .
ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS plant sweet potatoes under BLACK plastic - that keeps the runners from setting down roots and making a bunch of tiny sweet pots - you will get nice potatoes that way and they will be clustered around your set like a sun dial - we've gotten them almost as large as a football. you need loose friable soil - a piece of 4 Mil BLACK plastic (LOWES) 10' X 25' ( two of these will give you enough for 36 sets). locate the center line along the length of the plastic sheet - cut 3" squares out for your sets, 18" apart - water them well the first week - 10 days until they are well established. keep the runners ON the plastic. sweet potatoes are tropical - they like to be HOT and they do not like to be too wet. we don't plant them until the last week of May or first week of June and we ALWAYS dig them (very carefully with a fork) in mid September . if the temperature drops below 60 they will go into a sort of hibernation mode. done right 36 sets will give you north of 70 lbs of sweet potatoes
ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS plant sweet potatoes under BLACK plastic - that keeps the runners from setting down roots and making a bunch of tiny sweet pots - you will get nice potatoes that way and they will be clustered around your set like a sun dial - we've gotten them almost as large as a football. you need loose friable soil - a piece of 4 Mil BLACK plastic (LOWES) 10' X 25' ( two of these will give you enough for 36 sets). locate the center line along the length of the plastic sheet - cut 3" squares out for your sets, 18" apart - water them well the first week - 10 days until they are well established. keep the runners ON the plastic. sweet potatoes are tropical - they like to be HOT and they do not like to be too wet. we don't plant them until the last week of May or first week of June and we ALWAYS dig them (very carefully with a fork) in mid September . if the temperature drops below 60 they will go into a sort of hibernation mode. done right 36 sets will give you north of 70 lbs of sweet potatoes
Samuel Adams
Has No Life - Lives on TB
I see Raggedy has this thread covered.
Do carry on.
Do carry on.
ioujc
MARANTHA!! Even so, come LORD JESUS!!!
Thank you Raggedy Man, I have never done anything but planted them. Never got a great yield. I think this may well become a very important crop by next spring.
I just continue to wonder what is going to happen to our country in the next few years......
I just continue to wonder what is going to happen to our country in the next few years......