With fingers crossed & Daumen gedruckt, I’ve planted two sweet potato slips. Conventional wisdom states they most likely will not produce viable crops for a few reasons.
First, sweet potatoes (being a tropical vegetable) need a minimum of 100 days of consistently warm sun. Second, they need a lot of soil within which to develop their tuberous roots. Thirdly, in an attempt to get as many sunny days as possible, I omitted the ‘soaking-the-slips-in-water-to-develop-roots’ step. In my defense, I’ve read that it’s not often necessary. We’ll see how it all turns out.
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Hej from Sweden!
Very cool! I wish you tons of luck. We get some real beautiful yams in our local markets, so beautiful that I am tempted to try a sweet potato pie. We grow regular white flesh potatoes and cute red potatoes out in our “plantation” my husband’s word not mine.
I am planning to try and grow mustard greens. Wish me luck!
🙂 good luck!!!
Are you growing them inside? Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 14:19:18 +0000 To: elissaph@hotmail.com
Nope, outside.
I’m curious how that will turn out. I’d say yes, a small potato, not as sweet. Then again, who Knows! European soil does have magical qualities. Good luck.
Thanks for the good wishes. However, the cool weather and excessive rain we’ve been experiencing coupled with the irrefutable fact that I can not change the nature and needs of a plant (which happens to be tropical in need of lots of hot summer days); I think this experiment will remain just that. Still I’ll update you when I can actually go outside and check on it.