Starting Sweet Potatoes In Water To start your sweet potatoes in water, all you need is a glass or jar, a couple of toothpicks, and a tuber.

Q. I’ve been wanting to grow sweet potatoes, but I can’t find any for sale at the garden centers. A. My guess is that because sweet potatoes are not grown like other vegetables such as … ...

Angela shared a video on TikTok explaining the sweet potato planting process. Start the slip process 8-12 weeks before you plan to plant outside. Set a sweet potato in some soil in a pot and water it.

One potato will produce anywhere from 15 to 50 slips, each of which will grow into a plant and produce 1 to 2 pounds of sweet potatoes.

Although the weather in the Baraboo Bluffs is not very spring-like yet, there are some plants I’m starting now for my garden. This year I want to start my own sweet potato slips.

Learn a few different methods for starting your own sweet potato slips to plant for a bumper crop and delicious harvest.

Sweet potatoes need warm soil to grow. Hand dug temporary raised beds help warm soil. Raised beds also help provide good drainage.

Sweet potato is a hot weather plant, but to be able to plant them when the ground is warm the slips need to be growing now. I start them indoors with potatoes grown the year before in our garden.

DEAR HELOISE: When I was a little girl, my mother used to start a plant with a sweet potato just by rooting it in a vase of water. Do you know anything about such a plant? I don't recall this ever ...

Sweet potato is a great crop to grow in warm to hot areas, where it can often be difficult to grow traditional potatoes. It’s a very hardy crop and one of the easiest to grow, and it provides ...