Planting Sweet Potatoes

Sweet potatoes are staple food in so many places. It is rich in carbohydrates and is sugary, making it one of the energy foods necessary for you. Now, not all sweet potatoes are yummy maybe because of how they were planted or the planting soil is just so bland. To ensure that you will be able to get tasty and nutritious sweet potatoes, why don’t you try planting sweet potatoes on your own backyard?

But how would you do that? Actually, that is the easy part. You only need to make sure that your planting soil is fertile, has access to a lot of sunshine and water—this you can fake by industriously watering your plantlings—, plus you get a hold of really delicious sweet potatoes planting vines. These criteria would be a lot easier if you have a farmer friend who can provide you with the vines or someone he or she knows who have them.

Preparing your planting bed

The planting bed of sweet potatoes is a bit different from those you can make for other tall growing plants. You have to make miniature mountain-like soil heaps to make one. Or, you can choose to make a long range of this miniature mountain to make a long ‘paddy’ for your sweet potato vines.

Preparing your planting bed will also require a little ‘fertility’ task, especially if your soil is not soft and rich like the ones you see on rice fields because that is basically where these vines will grow best. You have to use do damage your backyard soil pattern, disturb it, and then water it until it becomes a little damp and rich-looking. Once you achieve this state, your planting bed is ready for your planting vines.

How to plant sweet potato vines

While you are still preparing the planting bed of your sweet potato vines, you should also be preparing the vines themselves. You have to let them mature by cutting them up at about a foot long and allow them to grow some roots on them by leaving them exposed to sunlight and water. When both your planting bed and vines are ready, you can start planting early—at least while the sun is not yet up.

The actual deed of planting sweet potatoes is also a little bit different from all other plants. This requires you to pick at least three vines and plant them into one mountain-heap soil. That by three’s way of planting your sweet potato vines allows you to expect at least one of them making it to the fruiting-bearing stage. Also, if all of these vines make it to the bearing stage, that would be the reason for making their planting beds into mountain-like heaps of soil.

Harvest period of sweet potatoes

Normally, farmers harvest their sweet potatoes after 3 months. While you are waiting for this period, you can weed out plants that may rob your plantlings with nutrients, water them up, and keep animals like chickens from eating their leaves. These are preferred but not actually required because sweet potatoes are not actually very vulnerable plants. In fact, you can just wait for 3 months and dig them up for crops. That is, if you can take looking on tall weeds growing on your mountain heaps.

You will be surprised how big your crops will be if they are given enough water and sunlight and the ample time to grow to their largest. After the harvest, clean your crops from sludge and cook the way you want it. Perhaps, Cook of the Hour can give you some recipes on how to cook your sweet potatoes. XXX