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any of you gardeners ever plant sweet potatoes?
Posted on 6/14/13 at 11:57 am
Posted on 6/14/13 at 11:57 am
if so, did they make?
just checking because i would like to plant some, but no one around us has done it in the last 50 years.
tia
just checking because i would like to plant some, but no one around us has done it in the last 50 years.
tia
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Posted on 6/14/13 at 12:06 pm to Flair Chops
too wet for me.
Posted on 6/14/13 at 12:23 pm to jimbeam
Tried two years ago and grew a few, but really didn't make it worthwhile. It wasn't worth what we paid for the plants and the yield we got.
Posted on 6/14/13 at 12:58 pm to Flair Chops
Never had to plant them. Damn things just grew in the pantry.
Posted on 6/14/13 at 1:00 pm to TigerDog83
yeah, i don't know anything about them other than i like to eat them. someone told me they were pricey
Posted on 6/14/13 at 1:49 pm to Flair Chops
dont you have to plant them early in the year? not sure really but i love to eat em
Posted on 6/14/13 at 1:53 pm to Flair Chops
you kill the vines and leave them in the ground for 23 days so that the skin can "set up" then after you dig them out put them somewhere cool and dryfor 2-3 months so that they "cure out" meaning the starch turns to make them more sweet, if you eat them fresh they don't have a good flavor.
This post was edited on 6/14/13 at 2:24 pm
Posted on 6/14/13 at 2:13 pm to Flair Chops
My uncle plants then at the deer camp near St francisville. I honestly don't know what goes into planting them because I was never there for that. But I have helped harvest them. It's miserable in my opinion. Having to dig all of them out of the dirt just isn't worth it to me. Could be because I'm lazy though.
Posted on 6/14/13 at 8:49 pm to KG6
Sandy soil and lots of Mexicans are required to grow sweet taters.
Posted on 6/14/13 at 9:51 pm to weadjust
Easy to grow but you need slips. Get them from a feed store. You just plant them in really good loose soil and forget them. Easy growing. Forget killing vines and such bullshite. Sweet taters are easy as it gets baby. you can grow your own slips by putting some taters in a jar of water with the root end down with the top out of water, just use tooth picks. My grand ma used to grow them as an ivy. they will grow 8 ft tall
Posted on 6/14/13 at 9:58 pm to Flair Chops
I grew some 2 years ago. Mine produced good but were the funkiest looking things ever. I never did grow a normal looking sweet tater 
Posted on 6/15/13 at 12:01 am to KG6
how does he keep the deer from mowing them down?
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