So, I begin to wonder of the harvest time. Hi, from the Canary Islands, Last year I planted sweet potatoes in pots, presuming that sweet potatoes grew from sweet potatoes obviously not the case, and sadly I threw away all the vines, as I had not researched the eating of sweet potatoes leaves, which I have eaten on salads and in tortillas ever since I knew the leaves were edible.
Sadly once again I have had lots of leaves, after planting the rooted vines that I took off sweet potatoes , they all had great roots, but after more than days, the leaves have turned yellow sadly cannot eat these but normally this means the harvest is ready, well I was hoping But no Nothing, not one potatoes..
So I have resigned myself to keep purchasing the potatoes but grow lots of leaves, and enjoy them Maybe one day I shall find a Potato Hi Alicat, You can indeed grow a sweet potato from the slips of another sweet potato. Sweet potatoes are not grown from seeds like most vegetables.
However, store-bought sweet potatoes are often waxed to prevent sprouting. Do you have a friend who grows garden sweet potatoes? Or, you could reach out to a gardening group to find a gardener who grows sweet potatoes. If not, you need to go to your local nursery and inquire. And yes, the leaves are edible! They contain high dietary fiber, too. Shoots will sprout, and when they reach 6 to 9 inches long, cut them off the root.
Remove and dispose of the bottom inch from each slip, as that portion sometimes harbors disease organisms. Plant in full sun three to four weeks after the last frost when the soil has warmed. Make holes 6 inches deep and 12 inches apart. Bury slips up to the top leaves, press the soil down gently but firmly, and water well.
For sweet potatoes to grow well, they do need soil with plenty of organic matter for food. Work in plenty of compost which you can make. A foot row will produce 8 to 10 pounds of potatoes. I did not see the leaves turn green. Could be soil be the issue becos I am not in the North, but planted at the half a plot of my residence. Grateful advuse. They like a sunny spot with loamy, well-drained soil. If your soil is clay, rocky, or compacted, consider raised beds. I told my wife I'm going to try cutting some vines that still have roots on them and put them in a bag and freeze them for next year.
I wonder if they'll grow? What do you think? Sweet potato vines are tropical plants, which means that they cannot withstand cold temperatures for long. Because of this, freezing the vines will kill them, unfortunately! It is early August in Northern Texas, and my sweet potato plant has large, healthy leaves and vines growing along the fence out of a small box in the backyard.
However, I will be moving several hours South by car and will either have to transplant my plant in the car and replant it in our new home, or harvest them soon. Which is my best bet? Just checking. Can you take the plant with you, with the box and vines intact? If not, you can dig around in the box and see how big the roots are and decide then whether to take it altogether or harvest what you find.
My question is, can sweet potatoes be planted this way as well? The idea of using old tires as planters is not something we can get behind recommend , Sure, some sources suggest that they are safe short term biodegradation being a long term process and they are harmful if they have been burned or are shredded for use.
It just seems that there are so many things that can be used as containers why get tires involved. I read that vulcanised rubber contains high levels of heavy metals and other toxic compounds. I don't know whether they would definitely leach into soil and plants but I would avoid using tires for growing anything.
We planted sweet potato slips and half of them were eaten, rabbits. A few of the nibbled vines still had a slight green slip poking out of the ground. Will the slips die or continue to grow?
Try to protect the remaining slip; cover them carefully with screening or something like but closer woven than chicken wire. The slips might make it. I've had this potato patch for over a year. I decided to dig it up today.
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Oldest Newest Most Voted. Inline Feedbacks. Gretchen Heber gretchenheber. Reply to Donna Swope 1 year ago. You are going to send email to. In that case, more tubers can be planted and the density is greater. Yams are planted at the beginning of the rainy season. Plant them 5 to 10 centimetres deep 1 metre apart in all directions or 90 centimetres by 1 metre.
This gives the tubers plenty of room to fatten up, and the plant makes use of all the rainy season water. How to propagate yams Many kinds of yam bear flowers which fruit and produce seeds. So it is possible to obtain new yam plants by sowing these seeds.
But this way of propagating is no use to the farmer. The new plants grown from seed are not always like the parent plants. Often the yield is less, the tubers are much too small and of bad quality and contain a poison called dioscorine. For all these reasons, it is better to propagate by cuttings. But here care is needed Take cuttings from ripe tubers, and not from the aerial stems, as is done with cassava. These root cuttings make plants which are like the parent plant, and give good yields.
For the cuttings use pieces of tuber or small whole tubers. To get regular sprouting and good yields, the cuttings "whether whole tubers or pieces should weigh between and grammes. The amount of yams planted represents a considerable part about a quarter of the harvest. That much of the harvest must be set aside and well stored for use in planting later. Plant only fully ripe tubers.
It is best to use the part of the tuber nearest the crown. Robert Asiedu and Dr. Grown as a staple food, the tuber of the yam plant is its economically important part. The yam tuber, as in other tuber crops, is essentially a starchy or carbohydrate food and its principal nutritional function is the supply of calories.
The challenge, however, is that the onset of maturity in yam is not well understood and the date of harvest often bears no relationship to the functions and activities of the tuber. In the course of my research , I have found a scientific process that would enable yam farmers to determine the earliest possible time at which harvesting could be done.
I found that the most advantageous time to harvest is when the starch content of the leaf is at minimum levels. I established that this happened before the whole leaves started to decompose, some six months after planting had been done in the rainy season.
Harvesting yams at this point would have two major benefits. It would help improve the food and storage quality of the yam. It would also ensure that the farmer could use the same plot of land for planting another crop, especially vegetables, before the end of the rainy season to generate more income.
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