Q&A - How to get or grow sweet potato slips?

The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy

Jill McSheehy

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🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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I had a GREAT sweet potato harvest last year so I’ve been getting a lot of questions. I’m not ready to do a full episode about sweet potatoes because I’m still new at them, but I answer some of your common questions here today! Come learn how to get started with sweet potatoes!

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0:00.0	On today's Q&A episode, we're going to be talking about how to get started growing sweet potatoes.
0:06.0	I have had a lot of questions about growing sweet potatoes, especially since so many of you guys saw that I harvested almost 100 pounds last year in my first try.
0:17.0	But I haven't done a full podcast episode yet because I've only grown them for one year and
0:22.2	I don't know if that was beginner's luck or what but I promise to get a full episode whenever I feel
0:28.3	like I can adequately cover the subject but for today I wanted to answer a question that someone
0:34.2	sent me and that was that she wants to grow sweet potatoes but she can't
0:38.4	seem to find them locally to be able to plant them and that was something that I
0:43.9	felt like I had a little bit of trouble with last year as well sweet potatoes are
0:48.8	grown from slips so they're not grown from seeds and they're not grown from
0:53.6	cut-up potatoes like white potatoes they're not grown from seeds and they're not grown from cut up potatoes like white potatoes.
0:56.6	They're actually not even in the same family as white potatoes. And it's a little bit tricky to
1:01.9	figure out how to start them if you've never done it. Last year I ended up getting my sweet
1:06.6	potatoes slips from two places. The first thing I did is I bought an organic sweet potato from the
1:12.7	grocery store and I put it in a jar of water with three toothpicks and then put it on a south
1:18.3	facing window. That worked out well. The slips grew from the potato. It's kind of hard to describe,
1:24.9	but I ended up having these sweet potato slips that I was eventually
1:28.8	able to snap off of the potato, put into potting soil, and just let root into that potting
1:34.5	soil before I transplanted them outside. But I didn't have enough because I'd never tried to do
1:39.8	this before. It was more of an experiment. I didn't have enough, so I was able to actually find sweet
1:45.1	potato slips from my local garden center. Not the big box store. It was a locally owned garden center.
1:53.7	And so most of my sweet potatoes actually came from there. You buy them in like cell packs like you
1:59.5	would any other any other
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