What make water the sweet potato easy to grow is its incredible vitality and resilience . Those vines ramble and root like nobody ’s business !
Sweet white potato are just about my topsurvivalcrop .
It is widely grown as an annual across the south – yet it ’s a perennial in Florida and the tropics .
A relative of the first light aura , the odoriferous murphy is highly alimentary , calorie - take , packs less of a glycemic hitting than grains , cassava or potatoes and store excellently . However , it does n’t like frost , so you ’re not going to get any growth during the winter . And do n’t implant them too early the first year – it ’s skillful to hold back until there ’s absolutely no probability of freezing your tender young starts .
Speaking of “ tender untested starts , ” anyone ever stuck a few toothpicks into asweet potato from the store , stuck it in a glass , then watched the bud rick into vines ? If not , take hold of a white potato and try it . The newfangled vines that form can be unwrap off and constitute in the dry land once they get to be a few inch long . The potato will go forward produce new ones for months . These small vine are call “ slips . ”
you may also bury sweet-scented potatoes on their sides in a pot or monotonous of soil and habituate the vines as they come forth .
The sweet potato – easy to grow and productive!
verify to keep them watered as they get established . Once they ’re established , they ’ll grow like weed .
I eff people will tell you all kind of things about harvest time , etc . , but I usually draw sweet potatoes in November … or when I get well-worn of their vine embrace everything . I follow the vines and pull up all I can . constantly I ’ve left some in the ground that return the next class , and that ’s fine . Get them before rime , if you may help oneself it .
The sweet potato – easy to grow and productive !
The sweet potato – easy to grow and productive!
One affair to remember is that sweet-scented potatoes are pretty bland until you let them pose and historic period for a while . When you dig the potatoes , allow them sit out for a small while to dry out , then put them in a basket , dirty or not . After a few weeks ’ storage they ’ll dulcify up . They keep for a long time under cool dry conditions , too .
Months and months .
I ’ve stored sweet potato for six months and still had becoming roots to rust , despite what you read about short store times .
Another welfare to the sweet-scented potato : its farewell are eatable raw or ready . We eat sweet white potato vine leaf in our salad all summertime and fall . They do n’t have a lot of flavor , but they ’re a great salad stuffer and have a pleasant crunchy grain , provided you do n’t cull when they ’ve been wilted by the sunlight .
This plant is first-class all around – just do n’t eat the roots raw . They wo n’t drink down you , but they do have some anti - nutrients that are removed during cookery . FYI .
The picture at the top of the fiddling seraphic potatoes in water was aim in my greenhouse this leap .
I bought an organic “ fresh potato assortment ” in shrink - wrap at Publix .
It was a total gimmicky thing with a few small dissimilar - colored roots in a row , selling for the ridiculous monetary value of $ 2 and change , quick - to - microwave ! I thought “ heck with that – I can grab about 5 cultivars of sweet-scented potato in one light swoop and PLANT THEM ! ”
So I did , and had some very interesting potpourri produce in the garden this yr . The picture to the above right was most of this year ’s harvest .
God is sound ! ( And odorous white potato vine are n’t half bad either . )
February 2017 Update:
Check out my video on digging and planting a layer of sugared white potato :
That ’s how sluttish it is !
SPUDOMETER RATING :
5 spud !
Name : Sweet potatoLatin Name : Ipomoea batatasType : Vining perennialSize : vine easy crawl 15 - 25′Nitrogen Fixer : NoMedicinal : NoCold - stout : NoExposure : Full sun / part shade . Lots of Lord’s Day is the best . Part Used : theme , leavesPropagation : Slips , newspaper clipping , rootsTaste : ExcellentMethod of preparation : stem cook , leaves crude or cookedStorability : ExcellentEase of grow : EasyNutrition : ExcellentRecognizability : HighAvailability : High
