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Grow Sweet Potatoes in Bags and Sacks for Best Harvest
23.06.2024 - 07:53 / balconygardenweb.com / Ralph Astley
Growing sweet potatoes in sacks and bags is a super easy and successful way to bring homegrown goodness to your table. From saving space to getting bigger tubers, this method is about to become your new favorite gardening trick. Let’s dig in!
Sacks and bags are surprisingly the perfect way to grow sweet potatoes. They’re cheap, easy to manage, take up minimal space, can be moved, and can even lead to bigger, tastier sweet potatoes because growing in them makes the process of hilling easier. Plus, you control the soil quality, making it ideal for these tasty tubers. Pretty neat, huh?
The first thing you need is the bags. So, what kind of bags are we talking about?
Coming to the material, both burlap fabrics and plastic tarps work fine. There’s no difference in growth, and you can clean both of these easily to get the bag ready for the next season.
Another cheap and durable option is used polypropylene (PP) bags. You plant your sweet potatoes in them after washing and rinsing thoroughly in water.
The other thing you need is sweet potato slips. These are young sweet potato sprouts or plants that you can grow yourself from a store-bought sweet potato or buy from a nearby garden center.
You can also use sweet potatoes from your kitchen to grow slips for your sack. However, for this purpose, buy from a farmer’s market or organic sweet potatoes, as they won’t be treated with growth retardants to increase shelf life.
They have little bumps on their skin called “eyes,” and they’ll sprout into leafy shoots perfect for planting. Here’s what to do.
Once the shoots are about 5-6 inches tall and have a few leaves, it’s time to remove them from the sweet potato’s body gently. You can twist them off carefully or cut them with a sharp knife.
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