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wildeveld
Joined: 27 Mar 2005
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Location: Argyle,TEXAS
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 12:11 pm Post subject: sweet potatoes |
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| Have a large veggie garden, with all the normal stuff. Want to try sweet potatoes. Where can I get the seed and do I need to do any thing special? |
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mc71
Joined: 22 Apr 2005
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Location: Durant,OKLAHOMA
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| Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 10:51 am Post subject: |
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| Go to the market, buy some sweet potatoes, plant them; whenever they sprout, let the sprouts grow, then plant the slips. These information came from my sister-in-law who has been gardening many years. I had some nice potatoes from East Texas and have used some of them and followed her suggestion. I am waiting for results. I have beautiful plants with lots of runners. Happy Gardening. |
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ckjones123
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| Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 3:40 pm Post subject: sweet Potatoe |
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| How do you grow th em? How far apart are the rows? |
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mc71
Joined: 22 Apr 2005
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Location: Durant,OKLAHOMA
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| Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 9:32 pm Post subject: Sweet potatoes |
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| As previously stated, the slips are grown from sweet potatoes planted and sprouted like the kids in school for their projects. I planted them in rows with the slips around 12-18 inches apart in the rows. Rows about 3 feet apart. I just used the organic gardening approach and it worked great. I had beautiful plants, lots of potatoes, but the laugh was on me because the armadillos ate them down to about 1/3 the size. I guess I left them in the ground too long. They take up quite a lot of garden space, but were easy to grow just wasn't fast enough to get to eat them. Happy Gardening! |
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