Growing Oriental sweet potatoes??

faithslanding · **Posted:** Sun Apr 29, 2012 5:15 am

Anyone here grow potatoes, sweet potatoes, or oriental yummy sweet potatoes?? I am new to this but would love to try! Is it difficult??? My herbs, greens and other veggies grow well , but I don't wanna mess up potato planting

SFJ · **Joined:** Thu Jun 30, 2011 12:58 pm **Posts:** 26

It's easy, my plants are doing great, I followed these instructions:

http://www.google.com.ni/url?sa=t&rct=j ... 6ZJUq6OUjA

faithslanding · **Posted:** Sun Apr 29, 2012 4:56 pm

Thank you! Thank you! I did read somewhere you have to 'cure' your sweet potatoes first??? Like put them in a hot, moist place for a few weeks.. ever heard of that???

Chimichanga · **Joined:** Wed Aug 18, 2010 7:07 am **Posts:** 515

I would love to grow sweet potato. It says harvesting time is 4-6 months. How can you grow this in North East, Zone 6? If you start in May, six months will put you right back into winter.

Faith in DC · **Posted:** Wed Jun 13, 2012 1:06 pm

It has been about 5 weeks since my slips went in. Three have died. The remaining four are just sitting there doing nothing. I swear they haven't grown a centimeter. One plant may have grown an extra leaf or his orginal leaf got a little larger. At this rate I'll have sweet potatoes in August 2013.

Any suggestions?

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