Sweet Potatoes

I'd like to try growing sweet potatoes next year, so in preparation am finding what information there is and this site looks informative:
http://www.tropicalpermaculture.com/growing-sweet-potatoes.html

How to start

If you can't get hold of cuttings you can start growing sweet potatoes by planting the tubers. You can use any shop-bought sweet potatoes.

Place them on the ground, cover them with soil, and keep them moist. The tubers will develop shoots, called slips. Slips can be snipped or pulled off and planted out when they are about 15 cm (6") in size. The original root will continue to produce more slips.

Soil Conditions

Sweet potatoes like growing in sandy soils, lots of sun, lots of space, and a reasonable amount of water and nutrients. They love heat. The hotter it is the faster they grow. Wood ash, potash, seaweed.

Sweet potatoes don't like heavy, waterlogged soils, cold weather, and fertilizers high in nitrogen (like chicken manure, it makes them grow lots of leaves but no potatoes).




So, roll on 2012!