Learn how to grow your own sweet potato slips, an easy, budget-friendly way to turn one potato into a whole season’s harvest. 🌱💚🍠 | All About Gardening

Did you know you can grow unlimited slips from a single sweet potato. WHAT ARE SLIPS?They are sprouts that grow from a mature sweet potato. Each plant can then be planted in the ground which can produce as many as 5-15 sweet potatoes. Slips can be removed from the tubers and rooted in water before planting outdoors in the ground. If they grow big too early indoors, they can be trimmed in half and cuttings can be rooted again to form more slips. All you need to do is either use water or soil to r

This year I experimented with starting sweet potato slips directly in the garden bed. It worked!⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ You have to wait until the soil warms up in the spring, so it may not work as well in cooler climates. ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ This was definitely the easiest way yet to get these slips started and ready to plant. ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ It may be too late to start them this season, but save this post so you can try it next year! ⁣⁣ https://growinginthegarden.com/how-to-grow-sweet-potatoes/ ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ #howtogrowyourownfood #swee