Guidelines, specifics, and variety recommendations on best storage practices — temperature, humidity, and optimal shelf life — for enjoyment of classic storage crops such as roots and tubers like rutabagas, beets, turnip, cabbage, winter squash, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and leeks, well into the winter months.
This Tech Sheet provides instructions for growing sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) from slips. Cultural information detailed in this tech sheet covers basic soil requirements; planting instructions; pests and diseases; harvesting instructions; and storage recommendations.
Key Growing Information
Sweet Potatoes | Key Growing Information
Written by our research team, this reference contains the essential information for growing sweet potatoes. Read more for a successful harvest!
Sweet potatoes are easy to grow and highly nutritious. Using black plastic helps warm the soil and will get your slips off to a good start.
Watch the full video of our webinar, Rooted Knowledge: Sweet Potatoes from Slip to Storage, including Q&A session.
A slide deck recap of Johnny's webinar Rooted Knowledge: Sweet Potatoes from Slip to Storage.
In this video, we show you what to expect from your order of sweet potato slips.
Learn how to grow, harvest, and enjoy sweet potatoes with confidence!
Illustrated steps to successfully starting sweet potatoes from slips: holding over, laying mulch, spacing holes, dibbling in the slips, and laying row cover.