Clipping sweet potato slips
We turned off the heating mat under our sprouting sweet potatoes a week
or two ago when the daytime temperatures hit the eighties. Then I
moved them into a sunny window and the small sprouts promptly went wild.
Yesterday, I decided the biggest sprout was large enough, so I pinched
it off and moved it to its own cup of water (right photo.) Within
a week or so, this sprout will have enough roots to go in the
ground. Meanwhile, other sprouts will continue to develop on the
parent tuber. With the addition of bottom heat, starting our own
sweet potato slips turns out to be child's play!
(If you missed it, you can read about what our sweet potatos looked
like on April
9 and April 24.)
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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