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</html>";s:4:"text";s:40645:"They must go in later than peppers, tomatoes, and other heat-loving plants because sweet potatoes need … Cure in a warm, airy place for two weeks before storing at cool room temperatures. Eaten fresh sweet potatoes can be boiled, roasted or cut into chips; the shoots and leaves can be cooked and used as a spinach substitute. Growing your sweet potatoes indoors. Use toothpicks to hold the potato in place (Image 1). Growing sweet potatoes works best in loamy, well-drained soil that is not too rich. If you don’t know the pH of your soil, do a soil test to find out. So planting time is in spring after the frosts have finished and the soil is warming up a little. Sweet potatoes need a fairly long growing season to produce a good harvest. Right, now that we have everything ready and in place, let us focus on the actual growing process and learn how it is done! This allows the sweet potato to grow easily but not remain in a moist environment that encourages rot and disease. Sweet potatoes are simple to grow and can be planted in your patch or allotment from slips, which are young stems, or plug plants which are slightly more mature. Sweet potato is relatively easy to grow in the right conditions. times, RHS Registered Charity no. The part we eat is the tuberous root of a vining plant that is closely related to morning glories (Ipomoea tricolor) and youll easily see the similarity in leaves to the sweet potato vines we now grow as ornamentals. They are runners, so you have to train them to climb, but encouraging the runners to go toward the trellis. Mice can also be a problem, so be on the lookout. Which was a good thing because my cat ate the slips… Grow the plants on in a bright, frost-free position in the greenhouse or on a sunny windowsill, until late May until early June, potting on as necessary. Place tubers in moist vermiculite, perlite or sand in a warm propagator or airing cupboard to encourage sprouting. Join the RHS today and support our charitable work, Keep track of your plants with reminders & care tips – all to help you grow successfully, For the latest on RHS Shows in 2020 and 2021, read more, RHS members get free access to RHS Gardens, Free entry to RHS members at selected times », Reduced prices on RHS Garden courses and workshops, Our Garden Centres and online shops are packed with unique and thoughtful gifts and decorations to make your Christmas sparkle, General enquiries
How to Grow Sweet Potatoes. The foliage can be trained up string, canes or trellis. Lay the polythene over the soil several weeks before planting, from late March or April as the soil starts to warm up. How to Grow Sweet Potato Slips… Option 1 – your first option is to cut your potato in half and place the flat side down in a dish that you filled with a little bit of water. But they are small… the size of baby bakers (maybe about 1/4 lb). Planting and Harvesting Calendar They are often treated with an anti-sprouting agent too, so scrub them clean before planting. If your winters are longer than a couple of months, you can save tubers over the winter and plant them the following spring. Three to four months after planting, the tubers should be ready to harvest for eating. How to plant sweet potatoes. Slips or transplants for growing sweet potatoes in a container may be purchased from the local nursery or grown yourself. Step 6: Planting sweet potatoes. I did. Growing sweet potatoes — a great storage crop for those looking to be food self-sufficient — is simple in many climates if you follow our tips. Sonya Harris is a Master Gardener, former special education teacher, and founder of the award-winning Bullock Children's Garden in Glassboro, New Jersey, with experience in small-space gardening, low-income gardening, and growing foods and plants in poor soil conditions. Tubers take four to five months to mature and are best lifted once the leaves turn yellow and die back. Growing Sweet Potatoes. It can be boiled, roasted or cut into chips; the shoots and leaves can be cooked and used as a spinach substitute. Container Growing Sweet Potatoes: Grow a single sweet potato plant in a box or tub that is at least 12 inches (30cm) deep and 15 inches (38cm) wide. When I first started learning about growing sweet potatoes around 2010 there really wasn’t a lot of information out there on the big, bad Internet about how to grow them. Any good growing medium is satisfactory, including peat-free types. The orange-fleshed sweet potatoes are the most familiar, but sweet potatoes can be white, yellow, and even purple. Ornamental sweet potato vines are in the same family as edible sweet potatoes and are in fact the same species. Just make sure that the ground is properly warm or they’ll have a tough time settling in. Sweet Potatoes. Edible sweet potatoes are closely related to morning glories (Ipomoea tricolor) and are the same species as the sweet potato vining plants commonly grown as ornamentals. Use black polythene, to warm the soil and suppress weed growth. Below we list the main varieties of sweet potatoes which grow well in UK conditions. Keep greenhouse plants well watered, and feed every other week with a high-potassium liquid feed. View all Sweet potatoes at the RHS Plants Shop. They generally prefer full sun but appreciate some afternoon shade in hot, dry regions. Follow our step-by-step guide and you'll know how to grow sweet potatoes in no time. Keep the compost moist, using tepid water. The first is well dug, compost rich soil, and they need drainage. Plant sweet potatoes in warm soil about a month after the last spring frost. And although they are seen as a ‘warm climate’ crop they can be grown in cooler areas as well. They grow best in the temperature range of 75- 95 F (24-35 C) To give them a head start, sweet potatoes are often planted in raised rows, about 8 inches high. The ideal soil pH for growing sweet potatoes is 5.5 to 6.5 (somewhat acidic to slightly acidic). ‘Georgia Jet’:Early maturing, productive and reliable throughout the UK. It is widely grown throughout warmer climates and is now gaining popularity in the UK using hardier cultivars and growing under protection in cooler regions. Since the vines root wherever they touch the ground, a few plants can produce a generous harvest. Here's a really simple way to grow sweet potato slips. Sweet potatoes are best suited to greenhouse or tunnel growing (recommended for northern regions) but will thrive outdoors in warm summers further south. Wireworms and root-knot nematodes are the biggest problems when growing sweet potatoes in home gardens. Marie Iannotti is an author, photographer, and speaker with 27 years of experience as a Cornell Cooperative Extension Horticulture Educator and Master Gardener. Attempting to grow sweet potatoes from those sold at supermarkets for eating is likely to be doomed to failure in all but the very warmest parts of the UK. When growing sweet potatoes, start out with “slips.” These are small pieces of potato tubers that are used to start the sweet potato plants. Sweet potatoes mature in 90-170 days, so a long growing season is essential to your crop’s success. More sunlight and leaf surface area that receives sun means larger sweet potatoes. When thinking about how to grow sweet potato plants, realize that these particular tubers grow on vines. Sprouts will be cut and transplanted from the greenhouse or bedding field to a different field in May or June. Just don’t let them sit in the ground too long after the tops die back or they could start to rot. Treat cuttings from overwintered plants in the same way. Sweet potatoes. Alternatively,you can plant into patio containers as long as they are in a sunny, sheltered spot. Borage is a quick-growing herb that is easy to add to your garden. However, they are not natural climbers. If you live in an area with short winters, you can begin new slips from vine cuttings. Bonus Tips for growing sweet potatoes. Leave in a sunny spot and watch it grow roots and leaves. Growing sweet potatoes in wine barrels. Be sure to select bush varieties, which produce shorter vines when growing a potted sweet potato plant. Be sure to leave enough to keep the plant growing. Sweet potatoes crop best at temperatures between 21-26°C (70-80°F). Sweet potatoes may be associated with the southern U.S., but they will grow in just about any garden. Southern gardeners should choose disease-resistant cultivars. The sweet potato is considered as a staple in some tropical countries where rice and potatoes (Solanum tuberosum) are scarce or expensive. Prepare your growing area by tilling the soil to a depth of 10-inches. Remove the shoots, with a sharp knife, when they are 5-7.5cm (2-3in) long and pot them into small pots of cutting compost and root them in a warm propagator. If you don't want them growing all over your yard, try to build some sort of trellis for them to grow vertically on. They are often treated with an anti-sprouting agent, so scrub them clean before planting. Although the terms sweet potato and yam are used interchangeably in the U.S., they are two entirely different vegetables. Sweet Potatoes; How to grow sweet potatoes Gardening Etc. The sweet potato or sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas) is a dicotyledonous plant that belongs to the bindweed or morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.Its large, starchy, sweet-tasting, tuberous roots are a root vegetable. Borage leaves and flowers have a mild cucumber flavor and are a tasty addition to drinks, salads, and more. The young leaves and shoots are sometimes eaten as greens.The sweet potato is not closely related to the common potato (Solanum tuberosum). Before planting, improve your native soil by mixing in several inches of aged compost or other rich organic matter. Option 2 – fill a jar with water. I planted Ol’ Bunch Porto RICO’s about 160 days ago. They can be planted in spring or summer, but the earlier you get them into the ground, the bigger your harvest will be. The best approach is to add compost to the beds before planting the sweet potatoes. At that time, growing sweet … Dig up the tubers before the first frost in fall. The sweet potato is a large, sweet-tasting root of the morning glory family. Sweet potatoes prefer soil that is well-drained but high in organic matter. Both types grow best in sunny conditions, but if you want to grow the garden varieties that produce edible tubers, it will take quite a long growing season. Because even though growing sweet potatoes is easy – it’s a bit of a thing. Since sweet potatoes tend to be creepers rather than climbers, choosing the correct trellis is essential for success. They can be grown from shop-bought tubers but these may be less robust cultivars ill suited to outdoor growing. Allow a sweet potato to sprout. If you would like to know how to grow a big harvest of sweet potato watch this video for my five top tips on sweet potato growing! Most people are familiar with the bright orange colored sweet potatoes. All about improving the final outcome of this project. When the last frosts finish, prepare your soil, and plant your slips about an inch below the surface. Sweet potato is a great crop to grow in warm to hot areas, where it can often be difficult to grow traditional potatoes. ‘Harden off’ before planting outdoors, in slits through the polythene. Furthermore, growing sweet potatoes requires the soil temperature to be kept at 70 to 80 F. (21-26 C.). Their skins are tender and can be damaged and bruised easily. Reply. Keep the plants moist, especially during dry spells. Frequently the varieties used are only suited to much warmer climates. Once several sprouts have grown to 5-6 inches long, you are ready for the next step. It certainly was an exciting journey in growing the sweet potatoes. Dig in autumn when the soil is still warm. Growing sweet potatoes inside a greenhouse or polytunnel structure can be the best option in these regions. - Laura Crombie. Cover the pots with a clear plastic bag or place them in an unheated propagator, until they root. Shop-bought tubers: These can be used but will be less robust cultivars ill-suited to outdoor growing. Sweet potato is a great crop to grow in warm to hot areas, where it can often be difficult to grow traditional potatoes. With the use of a season extender like a greenhouse and a slightly earlier harvest, you can even grow sweet potatoes in colder areas. The tubers are usually orange but may also be purple, yellow or white inside. Use biological control in the greenhouse. Alternatively, you can apply an organic liquid fertilizer to the soil prior to planting. Simply buy a small organic sweet potato from your local grocer and place the tip in water. Growing Sweet Potatoes The Lazy Way. Don't water your sweet potatoes during the final three to four weeks prior to harvest to prevent the mature tubers from splitting. Sweet potatoes are a traditional food in many countries because they will grow in poor soil. 1. Just six simple steps from beginning to harvest… 1. They prefer a light sandy soil, as good drainage is important; however they can be planted into ridges 15 – 30 cm high if your soil is not naturally free-draining. When to plant Sweet Potatoes. Sweet potatoes are a vine and want to grow horizontally across the ground. At that time, growing sweet potato slips was a closely guarded secret in the farming community. If you would like to know how to grow a big harvest of sweet potato watch this video for my five top tips on sweet potato growing! It's best to keep it evenly moist with 1 inch of water given once a week. Sweet potatoes prefer full sun, and loose, slightly acidic soil—pH 5.5 is ideal. However, storage is a difficult task as sweet potatoes are very vulnerable to spoilage. The first thing you should know about growing sweet potatoes is that they love hot weather! Sweet potatoes require full sun and a warm climate. Sweet potatoes are easy to grow but they do need a few things to grow really well. If your summer is short, pick an early variety like Beauregard or Georgia Jet to ensure you’ll have enough time to harvest and cure your potatoes … If growing your crop undercover, remember to open doors and windows during the day to keep your greenhouse or polytunnel well ventilated. Likely varieties for sweet potato container crops are Puerto Rico and Vardaman. Chitrangada Sharan from New Delhi, India on July 22, 2017: Excellent hub about growing sweet potatoes! Growing Sweet Potatoes. The very first thing you need to get is, of course, something to put the soil in and grow your plant. In this post, I’ll share how to grow sweet potatoes and how to harvest, cure and store them all winter long! When I first started learning about growing sweet potatoes around 2010 there really wasn’t a lot of information out there on the big, bad Internet about how to grow them. Growing sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes grow primarily underground, but their vines grow above the ground. Overwinter plants in a frost-free greenhouse or windowsill. They are also unrelated to regular potatoes. A sweet potato contains around one-and-a-half times the calories and vitamin C of the ordinary garden potato. Sweet potatoes will generally thrive in any average well-drained soil in a sunny location. Growing sweet potatoes in water is easier than you think. ‘O’Henry’:A compact variety, tubers develop as a cluster beneath the foliage. Have you ever grown new houseplants from clippings? The edible and ornamental types are different cultivars of Ipomoea batatas. Remedy: Use biological control or sticky traps in the greenhouse. Plant sweet potatoes 2-3 weeks after the last spring frost, when the soil temperature is at least 65℉. Tubers rot if frozen and are hard to store, so consume sweet potatoes promptly. That way you can grow sweet potatoes all year round, and you don't find yourself with a big pile of them all at once. Here are the necessary steps to grow sweet potatoes in containers: Step One: Select a variety of sweet potato that is ideal for growing in containers. Small roots should develop within a few days, followed by leaves. Native to the Americas, sweet potatoes are known for their colorful and tasty tubers. Reliable and vigorous, wtih good sized tubers. To start your slips, you need several healthy, clean sweet potatoes. They must be planted in a well-drained, fine sandy loam soil with a slightly acidic pH 5 to 7.5. As their popularity increases, more and more intrepid gardeners are trying their hand at growing their own. Indoors: Grow sweet potatoes in a glasshouse in large tubs, growing-bags or the glasshouse border, transplanting from the pots once they have produced plenty of roots. Sweet potatoes freeze well if they are blanched or boiled beforehand. Native to the tropics and sub tropics, sweet potatoes grow readily in USDA Zones 8 and 9; they may even perennialize. You can also create slips from a full-grown sweet potato. Sweet potatoes are grown from tuber sprouts called slips. Cover the pieces with a few inches of soil and keep it moist and warm. Be sure to plant your sweet potatoes in full sun to part shade. Whitefly: Small white flies suck sap and excrete sticky ‘honeydew’ over the plant, encouraging the growth of sooty mould. If you like to eat the leaves as greens, you can do so in moderation throughout the season. Sweet potatoes are slow-growing and are always planted in spring because they require four months of warm temperatures to develop full-size tubers, but they are surprisingly easy to grow. Sweet potatoes are native to the sub-tropics and grow best in temperatures above 70°F / 20°C and in humid conditions. Although they produce better with regular water, they can handle dry periods. This process is so much easier than you might think. Sweet potatoes make for a nutritious and filling side dish to most meals. The size of the sweet potatoes is determined by the amount of sunlight the leaves receive. Ideally, the pH is between 5.8 and 6.2, although, they will tolerate a more acidic pH to 5.0; Plant slips 10-12 inches apart and allows room for the vines to grow, they will create their own tropical ground cover. Growing sweet potatoes can require a lot of space however, with the use of containers and compact varieties any gardener is able to grow their own. Cover with cloches or fleece – the temperature lift makes all the difference. Disclaimer: […] Read more… Ideal for containers. Lisa Nobumoto. Plant your Sweet Potato plants at a spacing of 30 cm (12″) apart. You can add compost to the beds before planting the sweet potatoes. How To Grow Sweet Potatoes? Make sure your garden plot has plenty of room for the vines. Harvesting. Plant slips about 12 to 18 inches apart with 3 to 4 feet between rows. Now, before you start growing your own sweet potatoes, you will have to gather several things. Sweet potatoes grown for consumption are usually planted from purchased slips—small rooted pieces of a tuber—or from tubers that you root at home. Sweet potato tubers are ready to harvest in about three to four months, depending on the cultivar. However, sweet potatoes belong to morning glory family and potatoes are part of the tomato family. Growing sweet potatoes is very much like growing potatoes. I snapped off the sprouts after they had developed some leaves and potted them up in small pots until it was warm enough to plant them outside. When I started growing sweet potatoes I didn't plant in rows. Water to start the growth process, and leave your slips for 90-days to until you see the first sprouts emerge. Flesh is deep orange and very tasty. Choosing Sweet Potatoes. Excellent in a no dig garden and we tell you how to grow sweet potatoes. This space-saving design can be utilized in the garden or with container-grown sweet potatoes. Glasshouse red spider or two spotted mite: Leaves become mottled, pale and covered in webbing, on which the mites can be clearly seen; leaves also drop prematurely. Containers or grow bags for potatoes are ideal for this in a greenhouse, but remember you may need to train the foliage on a trellis. Tubers have distinctive salmon-orange flesh which is well flavoured and sweet. Follow these steps to plant sweet potatoes: Choose a bright position in the garden that receives full sun. 2) Site and Soil. You can dig up your tubers once the foliage starts to yellow. They need soil growing temperatures between 60 to 85 degrees Fahrenheit and an air growing temperature of 65 to 95 degrees Fahrenheit. We aim to enrich everyone’s life through plants, and make the UK a greener and more beautiful place. Other farmers grow sprouts by “bedding” seed potatoes in March. When they arrive, pot them immediately into small pots of multi-purpose compost. Unrelated to the true yam, these morning glory relatives are sometimes called by the same name. Sweet potatoes should not be planted outdoors until the temperature of the soil has warmed to 60 degrees Fahrenheit. To create sprouts, carefully wash your potatoes and cut them either in half or in large sections. Once established, sweet potatoes will tolerate growing in dry soil. Space sweet potato plants 12 to 18 inches apart in damp, loamy soil with a pH of 5.8 to 6.2. Here in the low desert of Arizona, plant sweet potatoes from March through June. Once your sweet potatoes have sprouted, you have to separate them … These tips will both teach you how to grow sweet potatoes in a pot and give some additional tips. Ideally feed them every 2 or 3 weeks with a general purpose fertiliser or a high potassium feed and pinch out the stems if they grow more than 60cm. The easiest way to grow lots of sweet potato slips is by submerging the sweet potato in a cup full of water. Because of the warmth required in the soil, you should start sweet potatoes about mid-summer. Ideally, the pH is between 5.8 and 6.2, although, they will tolerate a more acidic pH to 5.0; Plant slips 10-12 inches apart and allows room for the vines to grow, they will create their own tropical ground cover. Place a stake or trellis in the center to support the vine which grows up and outwards. 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The ornamental varieties are simply cultivars of the species plant. One of the great things about sweet potatoes is that there are a number of different cultivars to choose from. They are bred for the beauty of their leaves rather than edible tubers, and the vines from these plants make them look more like a morning glory or clematis than a member of the potato family. If your soil is heavy clay, try growing sweet potatoes in raised beds filled with soil designed for that growing environment. Water sweet potato plants regularly. 10 Root Vegetables You Can Successfully Grow, Propagating and Growing Sweet Potatoes in Pots, How to Grow and Care for Velvet Banana Trees, How to Grow and Care for Sweet Cherry Trees. This spring I bought an organically grown sweet potato at the grocery store and planted it in a shallow pot to sprout. Ideally, the pH should be between 5.8 and 6.2, although they will tolerate a more acidic pH (down to 5.0). The fastest-growing sweet potato varieties have orange flesh, but varieties with white, yellow, or even purple flesh are excellent options if you have a long, warm growing season. Loosen and aerate the soil, adding plenty of organic matter – like compost or well-rotted manure. The best of a new harvest will usually come along in November, 3 or 4 months after planting. Growing sweet potatoes works best in loamy, well-drained soil that is not too rich. The part we eat is the tuberous root of this warm-weather perennial vining plant. Place the cuttings in water; once they develop roots, plant them in soil in pots and keep them in a sunny location until it’s time to plant them outdoors. This helps the soil warm faster and keeps them well-drained. You have explained all that is needed to know to do it yourself and in such a simple way. Both edible and ornamental varieties of sweet potato grow quite well in large pots. Growing sweet potatoes require a long frost-free growing season. Sweet potatoes are easy to grow but they do need a few things to grow really well. Growing Sweet Potatoes in Pots Growing in the Garden. Gardeners in the North should choose early-maturing cultivars. If space is an issue, consider growing vines vertically up a trellis to allow sunlight to reach the leaves and produce larger sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes are best grown from cuttings, which are not, in fact, rooted and technically called 'slips'. Yep, sweet potato slips is all you need for an entire harvest of sweet potatoes. When temps drop into the 50s foliage and tubers can suffer injury–so go ahead and harvest. Tubers are often found 12 inches or more from the plant's primary crown, so dig carefully. For a few years, I have been growing sweet potatoes, both from the grocery store and a slip I bought at a home improvement store. Before planting, thoroughly dampen the bed. M ost sweet potatoes take roughly 100 days of growth to mature. Sweet potatoes prefer a warm environment, so try to choose an area that gets a lot of sunlight (especially if you live in the north) and is well drained. They're an excellent source of vitamin A and a good source of vitamin C. Sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) are a great warm season crop for Florida. Growing Sweet Potatoes The Lazy Way. Remove the shoots, with a sharp knife, when they are 5-7.5cm (2-3in) long and pot them into small pots of cutting compost and root them in a warm propagator. Sweet potatoes are not heavy feeders, but it's important to give them balanced nutrition, typically with proper soil preparation. Each sweet potato can produce up to 50 slip sprouts. Fertilizer for growing sweet potatoes in the backyard garden. Ideally add some plant protection and plant under a cloche or fleece and through black plastic mulch laid on the ground to suppress weeds and retain the sun’s warmth. Store them over the winter in peat, vermiculite, or other dry material, and keep them in a cool, dry place without light (such as a basement or root cellar). Rotating their location in the garden from year to year also helps. A trellis can also be used for growing sweet potatoes vertically. Since sweet potatoes rarely flower or produce seeds in temperate regions, they are grown from rooted cuttings called slips: Select a healthy sweet potato tuber and find a glass container slightly larger than the tuber. Divide them into pieces, making sure that each piece has at least one eye. These plants are tropical in origin, so wait until the soil has warmed up fully before planting. Many diseases can be avoided by choosing disease-resistant varieties and using certified disease-free sweet potato slips. Mon – Fri | 9am – 5pm, Join the RHS today and support our charity. Then let’s begin! Place each section in a jar or glass of water with half of the potato below the water and half above. Sweet potatoes stop growing when the temperatures drop below 60F. The vines will spread and fill in, so give them plenty of room. More info on Glasshouse red spider or two spotted mite. Because even though growing sweet potatoes is easy – it’s a bit of a thing. How to Grow Sweet Potato Plants. You can try growing sweet potatoes from the grocery store, but the only way to be certain you have certified disease-free roots is to buy slips from a reputable seed supplier. Those, you will need in order to perform the process. Sweet potatoes also are safer to eat than potatoes. If you don’t have room for a garden bed, old wine barrels with plenty of drainage holes are an option or specially designed potato-growing … RHS Garden Hyde Hall Spring and Orchid Show, Free entry to RHS members at selected
Prepare soil correctly before planting sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes are a perennial vine that covers the ground and are usually grown from slips, which are sprouts that are grown from stored sweet potatoes. Greenhouse and container crops will also appreciate a feed of general purpose fertiliser every two or three weeks. Amend clay soils heavily with compost. Sweet potatoes will grow in poor soil, but deformed roots may develop in heavy clay or long and stringy in sandy dirt. They need a loose, friable soil and will grow better if the soil is reasonably fertile. Introducing "One Thing": A New Video Series, The Spruce Gardening & Plant Care Review Board, The Spruce Renovations and Repair Review Board, Herbaceous perennial, but usually grown as an annual vegetable, Vines spread to 20 feet; tubers average 4 to 6 inches. You can find home soil test kits online or at a garden supply center. This colourful, versatile veg is packed full of nutrients and is … If you have enough room you can also plant a permanent sweet potato patch. Use a light, porous soil mix. Find large pot. Grow slips/sprouts in the garden after all danger of frost has passed and the weather warms up sufficiently. You can grow your own slips. However, a couple of varieties have been bred to survive the UK climate and with our hints and tips on growing them you can expect a reasonable crop in many parts of the UK When I started growing sweet potatoes I didn't plant in rows. Treat cuttings from overwintered plants in the same way. Thanks for stopping by. The first is well dug, compost rich soil, and they need drainage. Normally, I will overwinter a few slips in water and they do well, but this last year my last two sweet potatoes sprouted! Learn tips for creating your most beautiful (and bountiful) garden ever. Pot cuttings: Plants are best grown from mail order cuttings or taken from plants overwintered in a frost free greenhouse or windowsill. Sweet potatoes form a dense green ground cover, thriving in hot summer conditions. It makes them grow faster than water too! How to Grow Sweet Potatoes from Slips. The Royal Horticultural Society is the UK’s leading gardening charity. The sweet potato propagation process takes a couple of weeks but your yam plant will make a spectacular centrepiece in your home. The secret to growing sweet potatoes is a long frost free growing season. October 30 at 2:14 am. 2. Snip off about 6 inches from the tips of the vines, before the first frost. Learn how to grow borage outside and in containers with these 5 tips. 222879/SC038262. This is a very undemanding crop to grow; sweet potatoes are drought- and heat-tolerant and have few pests or diseases. There are also bush varieties, for smaller gardens. 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