• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

Sunstone Farm and Learning Center

Fostering sustainable relationships with the earth.

  • Gardening
  • Recipes
  • Farm Animals
  • Urban Homestead
  • About Us
You are here: Home / Gardening / Starting Sweet Potato Slips, Part 2

Starting Sweet Potato Slips, Part 2

May 17, 2019 Leave a Comment

Back in February, I wrote about how to start your own sweet potato slips for planting. You put your sweet potatoes in water. Et voila! They grow roots and shoots. Now what?

This little sweet potato has two shoots, this little potato has one, and the middle potato has none!

The next step is to gently break off the shoots with the roots from the sweet potato. Put the shoots in water and let them grow until you’re ready to plant.  You can pot up the shoots and have a gorgeous sweet potato vine plant, or plant them in your garden when the soil is warm. If you have a long enough growing season you will get many sweet potatoes from each slip you plant.

Because I didn’t have a very bright or warm place to let my potatoes sprout, it took two months for them to start growing vines (this photo was taken back in April). Now even the sad potato on the toothpick is sporting sprouts. You can still start your own slips, you just may not get any or many sweet potatoes from the vines. If harvesting sweet potatoes is the goal, then at this late date you should purchase started slips from many online vendors.

Sweet potatoes like sandy soil and warm temperatures. Since we have sandy, sandy soil and hot summers, I’m looking forward to a good harvest come fall. Happy gardening!

Share this:
Share on Facebook
Facebook
Tweet about this on Twitter
Twitter
Email this to someone
email
Print this page
Print
Pin on Pinterest
Pinterest
Share on Reddit
Reddit
Share on LinkedIn
Linkedin

Filed Under: Gardening, Urban Homestead Tagged With: growing sweet potatoes, sweet potato slips

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Footer

New Posts

How to use liquid fertilizer for indoor plants?

How to Use Liquid Fertilizer for Indoor Plants?

How to care for an indoor palm tree

How to Care for an Indoor Palm Tree

What Type of Soil is Best for Hydrangeas?

What Type of Soil is Best for Hydrangeas?

How to get rid of ants in the garden soil?

How to Get Rid of Ants in the Garden Soil?

Subscribe

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Our Blog

The Sunstone Farm and Learning Center blog is a brilliant resource for gardeners and farmers who want to start to enjoy healthy foods. We’ll provide the very best tips!

© Copyright 2021, Sunstone Farm and Learning Center ·  All Rights Reserved