how to plant sweet potatoes

[seedcorn]

All this time, I've been buying starts and planting them straight up and down in the garden. In watching PBS today, they said to bury them side wise with only the top leaf sticking out. Greatly enhances the yields. Anyone else do this?

 

[catjac1975]

What show on PBS? Sounds smart to me.

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

i'm thinking of getting sweet potatoes this year so any info on these would be greatly informative for me! what's the show called? i don't have cable and our antenna hasn't been working right lately so i can't get any of the PBS stations to come in at the moment.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I plant them straight up and down but I plant them about 9" to 10" apart in the row. Some people plant them further apart.

How effective it is may depend on a couple of other things. The individual components may be different for different systems if you follow what I'm trying to say.

 

[baymule]

I planted mine up and down too! But laying them sideways makes sense. I think I'll try it this coming summer.

 

[so lucky]

Lots of people lay leggy tomato plants sideways. They get roots all along the buried stem that way. Probably would work for sweet potatoes, too.

 

[catjac1975]

Make sure you get the shorter time for days to maturity for northern growers.

i'm thinking of getting sweet potatoes this year so any info on these would be greatly informative for me! what's the show called? i don't have cable and our antenna hasn't been working right lately so i can't get any of the PBS stations to come in at the moment.

 

[seedcorn]

It was on P. Allen Smith Garden Home

For those of us in the North, take the growth off before they are killed by frost

 

[ducks4you]

I need a picture.

 

[seedcorn]

I need a picture.

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