Sweet potatoes are delicious so we sacrificed our one remaining sweet potato to an experiment to create more. Sweet potatoes are started from slips - vegetative cuttings grown from the tuber. Several months ago we stuck three toothpicks in each half of the potato and suspended it halfway covered in water. The tubers sprouted leaves from the eyes, which once 6" tall were pinched off and moved into a second jar of water to grow out their roots. Once the weather warmed in May, we planted them out into the garden!
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| Leaves beginning to sprout from the halved potato |
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| 3 Slips with lots of foliage and strong roots ready to be planted |
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