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What the Most Advanced Gardeners Don't Know: How to Grow Sweet Potatoes
31.05.2023 13:10
Updated: 13.05.2024 21:25
Sweet potato is a delicious, sweet vegetable that is rich in vitamins and nutrients.
The orange vegetable is an excellent source of protein, carbohydrates, fiber, B vitamins, vitamin C, potassium, and calcium.
How to grow
The most common germination method is to simply place the tuber on an earthen substrate, about half deep, and moisten regularly.
If the earth is kept moist at room temperature, then pretty soon buds will form on the tuber, from which sprouts will begin to grow.
According to the rules, sweet potatoes begin to germinate in March, but if you want to germinate a tuber purchased in a store, it is recommended to start forcing the cuttings ahead of time. Shop tubers germinate more slowly, and may not sprout at all.
Watering
Watering: plentiful only in the first month after planting seedlings, then (from the second half of summer) sweet potato is watered no more than once a decade, but if it rains from time to time, then you can not water it at all.
The last moistening of the soil is carried out 2-3 weeks before harvesting.
