Ha ha ha, I was hoping for advice like this because sweet potatoes are awesome, delicious and nutritious.
Can you share any more advice about growing sweet potatoes? Do they suffer from any diseases that can be easily cured? Do they produce a similar yield as regular potatoes?
Every once in awhile Ill dig up a rotten sweet potatoe.
Worms are more of an issue, but if you have a ton, they can't get them all. Also, most blemishes can be cut off.
Just make sure to have pleanty of space for them. Like their own 8 x 8 garden bed. Hight of the summer is when theyre at their sweetest, but I wait till fall cus its hot for digging and Im not big on sweet lol
I find regular potatoes don't do as well for me. They grow more like a bush and all the potatoes are under one bush. They're also more suseptible to being sickly and pest
So they are best grown in a pot. Like, their own 5 gallon pot where they can be managed a bit more. Also their leaves aren't edible.
When you harvest there will be a bunch of tiny little sweet/reg/potatoes. Just replant those for the following year.
Ha ha ha, I was hoping for advice like this because sweet potatoes are awesome, delicious and nutritious.
Can you share any more advice about growing sweet potatoes? Do they suffer from any diseases that can be easily cured? Do they produce a similar yield as regular potatoes?
Every once in awhile Ill dig up a rotten sweet potatoe.
Worms are more of an issue, but if you have a ton, they can't get them all. Also, most blemishes can be cut off.
Just make sure to have pleanty of space for them. Like their own 8 x 8 garden bed. Hight of the summer is when theyre at their sweetest, but I wait till fall cus its hot for digging and Im not big on sweet lol
I find regular potatoes don't do as well for me. They grow more like a bush and all the potatoes are under one bush. They're also more suseptible to being sickly and pest
So they are best grown in a pot. Like, their own 5 gallon pot where they can be managed a bit more. Also their leaves aren't edible.
When you harvest there will be a bunch of tiny little sweet/reg/potatoes. Just replant those for the following year.
Edit: 5 gallon pot is fine. Idk why I said 10 lol