What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening podcast. Today we're going to talk about

sweet potatoes and specifically how do you grow sweet potato slips. Now slips are an interesting term because oftentimes we talk

about growing something from seed, right? Or maybe propagating by division or by

cuttings. Well, sweet potatoes are a bit different. They are not started by seed like most

other vegetables. They are started from something called a slip. Slips are shoots that are

grown from a mature sweet potato.

So what you can do is you can just order sweet potato slips from a website

or from your favorite seed supplier.

That's completely fine, totally normal and natural to do. But you can actually start

slips from a sweet potato that you buy at the store or one that you grew in your

garden. So if you buy a potato from a store, the first thing you kind of have to figure out is if you're getting a bush type or a vining type.

And that will determine how you grow them.

But we're going to talk about how to grow the

slips and so what you'll want to do, first of all each sweet potato can

produce about 50 slip sprouts so you're going to have quite a bit of slips off of even just one

sweet potato so the first thing you want to do wash your sweet potato then cut it in

half or in large sections and then place each section in a jar or glass of water.

And so one thing that a lot of people will do here is they will cut a sweet potato in half,

get toothpicks and stab them into the sides so that will suspend half

of the sweet potato in the water and half of the sweet potato above the water and they'll

use something like a mason jar to grow it in. So that is a wonderful way to do it.

And so what you'll need to do after that

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