Pavel314 wrote:
On Thursday, October 1, 2020 at 4:02:09 PM UTC-4, songbird wrote:
Pavel314 wrote:

I harvested the sweet potatoes this morning. We had a 25' row, about 3/4 regular yellow and the rest white sweet potatoes. The yellow did very well, we got at least 20# of good sized potatoes, but the white ones only produced two medium sized and the rest were just little shriveled ones, same as last year.

Does anyone have the secret to growing white sweet potatoes? They're very good when baked but our recent crops have been too small for baking.

i've never heard of them before, but i wonder if the
method of making sure the energy for the vines is only
going into the central clump would help...

What method is that?

i'm not exactly sure as i've not done it but something
like going around once in a while and making sure the
vines aren't allowed to root from the nodes so that all
the energy goes back towards the main clump of the vines.

i don't know if they have to be pulled up or how that
goes, but i heard it once and while it makes sense i've
never done it to know.

googling about growing sweet potatoes might give more
details.

i get different results from different varieties of
beans grown next to each other in the same soil so it
doesn't surprise me that it happens to other things too.
i've also had different results for peppers. some do
well and others don't. grown right next to each other...


songbird