Sweet Potatoes
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I wondered if anyone knows if you can use the self rooting sections which appear along the vines of sweet potatoes to produce 'slips' for cropping the following year. I have just harvested mine and potted up a dozen or so of these shoots in the hope that I can use them next year. I have them in the greenhouse which should remain frost free here in Guernsey.
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Nature's Babe
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Hi Infrance As far as know there are two ways to make slips, in water and in soil, it explains the methods here
http://www.bukisa.com/articles/212864_h ... toes-slips
, If you have roots then I imagine they would produce tubers. They are plants that like warmth, and need to be hardened off properly before planting out - not sure how they will react to winter cold, but maybe ok if your greenhouse is heated.
http://www.bukisa.com/articles/212864_h ... toes-slips
, If you have roots then I imagine they would produce tubers. They are plants that like warmth, and need to be hardened off properly before planting out - not sure how they will react to winter cold, but maybe ok if your greenhouse is heated.
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Thanks Nature's Babe for your reply. I will continue with the rooted shoots I have but will also keep a tuber to start off slips as described as an assurance that I end up with some viable plants. Growing them in the open ground has proved much better than containers, for me at least, the crop is much better.