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StrawHouseRanch
True Blue Farmgirl
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Paula
Holt
Missouri
USA
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 Posted - Dec 29 2011 : 08:20:24 AM
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Has anyone grown sweet potatoes in a barrel or bag in the same manner as white or red potatoes?
Paula
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Megan
True Blue Farmgirl
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Megan
Hudson
South Dakota
USA
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Posted - Dec 29 2011 : 09:47:22 AM
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i grew some sweet potatoes last year in a salt lick tub, they did better for me that the year before when i put them in the garden. I drilled holes in the bottom of my tub and filled with a dirt mix, gave them plenty of water. The growing season here isn't as long as they really need so im going to stick with squash instead
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Irishgypsy
Farmgirl at Heart
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Stacy
Senoia
GA
USA
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Posted - Jan 03 2012 : 2:12:23 PM
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| I have grown all my potato's in bags as I live in GA and the soil is just to poor to grow good size potatoes. I did chicken wire of 24" in a circle with weed blocker used as a bag to hold in the compost. I find they use less water and they grow like crazy with no weeding or fertilizer, of course its organic compost. I did gold potatoes and sweet potatoes. I placed them along my walk so the plants looked nice. |
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marjean
True Blue Farmgirl
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Marsha
Deltona
FL
USA
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Posted - Jan 03 2012 : 2:37:46 PM
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Can you explain that a little more. I am on my third year of trying to get things to grow here in FL. Either the rain kills them or the heat. I've done raised bed boxes, layered on the ground with all organic compost and soil etc...
They come up get about 2 feet tall and then die. The squash take forever to get flowers and then when they do they don't stay open long enough for the bees to work.
I'm going to start all the heirloom seeds indoors and then transplant them this year.
I was thinking of trying a different location in our yard since the last two years was a bust in the place we have now.
Is morning sun or afternoon sun better?
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StrawHouseRanch
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Paula
Holt
Missouri
USA
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Posted - Jan 04 2012 : 05:47:35 AM
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Stacy, Thank you so much for the info about growing sweet potatoes. I'm going to give it a try that way this year.
Marsha, This technique is a great way to grow potatoes in a compact space. If you have a barrel or supported bag, like Stacy was describing, you place enough dirt in the bottom of the container to plant your slips. Then, as the plants grow, you cover them with dirt, so that only the top leaves are sticking up out of the soil. The places where the leaves were on the plant that are now below the soil will generate potatoes. Keep letting them grow, and filling the container all of the way up to the top. At the end of the season, you will have a container full of potatoes.
I'm glad this method works with sweet potatoes too. We go through a lot of them, but I didn't want to plant long rows of potatoes in the ground.
Paula
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
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Louisiana/Texas
USA
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Posted - Jan 06 2012 : 3:49:16 PM
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Add me to Marsha's I want to know how. Does one plant sweet potatoes the same way as a regular potatoe? I do hope all of y'all farm girls are chuckling at me. LOL. I'm ready to plant anything right now. Enough of the cabin fever! Thanks for the information.
Marly
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kristin sherrill
True Blue Farmgirl
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kristin
chickamauga
ga
USA
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Posted - Jan 07 2012 : 07:25:33 AM
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My mom planted her half barrel last year with sweet potatoes. She got a few but they were small. She didn't think she'd get any. So this year she may have to keep adding more soil. I will tell her what you said, Paula.
Kris
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smiley
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lea
pea ridge
arkansas
USA
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Posted - Jan 07 2012 : 8:03:20 PM
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| That sounds easier than they rows to hoe I have been doing thanks! |
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