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RE: Busy Day Planting Seedlings Before the Heatwave - by Sunscape
It all looks fabulous. I am so jealous.
I got my sweet potatoes yesterday, too. And they looked even worse than yours. The directions said that is normal, to pop them in water for a week and they should be fine. I'm going to plant them in an 8 by 2 elevated container - if all goes well, it should be spectacular soon, and provide a good amount of sweet potatoes to store,
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Wow, you too! The slips would have been fine had they shipped them a bit earlier in the month. I see that mine are starting to show signs of recovery. I am going to put some in a 2x8 bed too, then the rest into 15-gallon grow bags. I saw a video last fall where a gardener used the grow bags and had good success. We shall see. I''m hoping for a decent crop since I love them so. Good luck with yours and keep us posted.
I used large grow bags last year, two of them, and did get quite a few, but not as many as advertised, more like 7 pounds per bag. Also, many of them were too small to store, and I chose to eat those right away. They stored very well - I still have a few pound left, the last of my 'root cellar' veggies, and didn't need a whole lot of watering. The best part of them was how beautiful the plants were, hence my planting them in that elevated planter, which has housed strawberries one year (gorgeous!) and green beans the next (so easy to harvest!). It's likely to be spectacular planted with purple leaved sweet potatoes! Onions on the west side - I got great onions from that planter last year - and early lettuces on the east side.
I remember that my slips looked even worse last year, and took a few weeks to get going, but they took off after that. I think yours are probably fine. Where did you get them? Mine are from FEDCO, Vardaman variety.
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