Sweet Potatoes

Temperature

• Cannot handle cold

• Can handle hot

• Around 60 degrees fahrenhait ideal

Sunlight

• Ideally in full sun

Water

• During the first 2 weeks after planting, spray each plant with 10 seconds of water from a garden hose (1/2 diameter) at 50psi or equivalent volume of water.

• After the first 2 weeks, spray each plant similarly as before but once a week if the weather has been dry.

Planting Timing

• Plant after any risk of frost.

• Planting with frost coming later is situationally ok because the water inside a grown sweet potato causes a moderating effect that enables the plant to last in the cold longer than it would normally as a new split.

• Beauregard sweet potatoes are harvest-ready in 90 days.

• Centennial sweet potatoes are harvest-ready in 100 days.

Planting Material

• Sweet potatoes grow from splits, thin root-like things.

• If you cut a sweet potato in half then submerge it in water, the splits will grow.

Spacing

• Plant sweet potatoes 2-4 inches below the topsoil surface

• Plant sweet potatoes 12-18 inches apart in rows

• Plant the rows at least 2-3 ft apart

How to Plant

• Till the ground to loosen the soil

• Make holes in the soil in rows and put the splits into them

• Cover the holes with soil and lightly tamp them