How to Grow Sweet Potato Slips

If you want to know how to grow sweet potato slips then you've come to the right place. It take some patience and a little work but the rewards are great.

Difficulty: Moderate


things you'll need:
Healthy sweet potatoes
Toothpicks
Jars or small containers
Water
Sunlight

Instructions
1 First off, find some healthy sweet potatoes. No openings in the skin, soft spotsor mold. Basically if it looks good enough to eat then you are good to go. You can find them at your local farmer's market in the fall or just go pick out some at your local grocery store or use some that you grew the previous year and stored in a cool dark place all winter.

2 Grab one sweet potato, two toothpicks and a jar or a water tight container that the potato can stand upright in without tipping over. The toothpicks will serve as a platform so that the roots have room to develop. Very Carefully push one toothpick all the way through the sweet potato about half way down . Do the same with the other toothpick and therefore making a(+)with the toothpicks if looking down on the sweet potato vertically. Sometimes it helps to twist the toothpick if it gets stuck when you are pushing it through the sweet potato. Be patient so not to damage the sweet potato. You will probably break a few toothpicks in the process. If so. Get a new toothpick and keep trying. Its easy once you get the hang of it.

3 Now that that is done. Place your newly punctured sweet potato in the jar so that all four toothpick ends rest on the rim of the jar.

 4 Fill the jar with water and set it in a sunny window facing East. Check the water level about every day. Make sure the jar stays full. In a few weeks purple eyes will start to emerge from the top and white roots from the bottom. Soon after, the eyes will sprout leaves. Each eye will grow into a slip. When a vine from an eye grows to six inches pinch it off where green meets purple and another slip will grow in its place. Plant the slips in your garden In hills or rows in loose fertile soil during the summer planting season. Sweet potatoes require a long hot growing season. potatoes should be ready to harvest in about 120 days.
Happy Gardening!





Tips & Warnings:
Remember to keep jar full of water.
Don't let your potatoes get too hot or too cold they could rot. Its best to keep them indoors near a warm window with plenty of sun when trying to grow the slips.