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How do I root a sweet potato
I had 3 different varieties of decorative sweet potato vines
in hanging pots last season. When frost was right around the corner last fall I emptied the pots and found a sweet potato in each pot. I've left them laying on a shelf in my basement and they seem OK. At least they are firm and not moldy. I want to get sprouts from them for this year if I can. How do you root a sweet potato?? Do I cut them in half and stick the cut end in a saucer of water?? Do I stick toothpicks in them and suspend them in the top of a jar full of water?? I think we did this as children but sheesh that's 45 years ago and I can't remember the details. Peace! Dan D. Louisville KY good ole USA http://ky-dan.com sorry my e-mail in the headers is dead this one will work -- kydan at myrealbox dot com |
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How do I root a sweet potato
No need to torture the sweet potatoes, Dandy Dan.
Just stick the rootstock in the soil in the spring and let them grow new vines all by themselves. Dan D. wrote in message om... I had 3 different varieties of decorative sweet potato vines in hanging pots last season. When frost was right around the corner last fall I emptied the pots and found a sweet potato in each pot. I've left them laying on a shelf in my basement and they seem OK. At least they are firm and not moldy. I want to get sprouts from them for this year if I can. How do you root a sweet potato?? Do I cut them in half and stick the cut end in a saucer of water?? Do I stick toothpicks in them and suspend them in the top of a jar full of water?? I think we did this as children but sheesh that's 45 years ago and I can't remember the details. Peace! Dan D. Louisville KY good ole USA http://ky-dan.com sorry my e-mail in the headers is dead this one will work -- kydan at myrealbox dot com |
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How do I root a sweet potato
To root for a sweet potato, you hold it upward in your hand & cry out in
its presence: "Hip hip HOORAY. Hip hip HOORAY." -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
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How do I root a sweet potato
"paghat" wrote in message news To root for a sweet potato, you hold it upward in your hand & cry out in its presence: "Hip hip HOORAY. Hip hip HOORAY." -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ Colloquial phrases are difficult in an international forum. Around here the verb "to root" has a different meaning, it's hard to put it delicately but ...hmmm... well if it applied to sweet potatos you might think your hamster was also at risk. David |
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How do I root a sweet potato
The best way is to lay them on the ground or in a container in the house,
which ever works best for you and depending how far south you live. Cover them with about an inch of sand and water it slightly. If it is warm enough, it will start growing slips that will come out of the sand. When they get 7 to 9 inches tall, hold the potatoe down with the fingers of one hand, and pull a slip up with the other. Remove any leaves for 3 or 4 inches up, and set it in a cup or glass of water. You dont want any leaves in the water. Leave it there for 2 or 3 days, and then plant it outside in the garden, or pot. Good luck. Dwayne Dan D. wrote in message om... I had 3 different varieties of decorative sweet potato vines in hanging pots last season. When frost was right around the corner last fall I emptied the pots and found a sweet potato in each pot. I've left them laying on a shelf in my basement and they seem OK. At least they are firm and not moldy. I want to get sprouts from them for this year if I can. How do you root a sweet potato?? Do I cut them in half and stick the cut end in a saucer of water?? Do I stick toothpicks in them and suspend them in the top of a jar full of water?? I think we did this as children but sheesh that's 45 years ago and I can't remember the details. Peace! Dan D. Louisville KY good ole USA http://ky-dan.com sorry my e-mail in the headers is dead this one will work -- kydan at myrealbox dot com |
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How do I root a sweet potato
Nobody is asking you to shag the root, you filthy minded bugger.
Have you been resorting to hamsters because your local pet store is out of gerbils? David Hare-Scott wrote in message u... "paghat" wrote in message news To root for a sweet potato, you hold it upward in your hand & cry out in its presence: "Hip hip HOORAY. Hip hip HOORAY." -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ Colloquial phrases are difficult in an international forum. Around here the verb "to root" has a different meaning, it's hard to put it delicately but ...hmmm... well if it applied to sweet potatos you might think your hamster was also at risk. David |
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How do I root a sweet potato
"Potatoe"? Is there another Dan Quayle among us?
http://www.capitalcentury.com/1992.html It would be far easier to simply plant them out in spring. But that would take all the fun out of your playing with your root all winter, wouldn't it? Dwayne wrote in message ... The best way is to lay them on the ground or in a container in the house, which ever works best for you and depending how far south you live. Cover them with about an inch of sand and water it slightly. If it is warm enough, it will start growing slips that will come out of the sand. When they get 7 to 9 inches tall, hold the potatoe down with the fingers of one hand, and pull a slip up with the other. Remove any leaves for 3 or 4 inches up, and set it in a cup or glass of water. You dont want any leaves in the water. Leave it there for 2 or 3 days, and then plant it outside in the garden, or pot. Good luck. Dwayne Dan D. wrote in message om... I had 3 different varieties of decorative sweet potato vines in hanging pots last season. When frost was right around the corner last fall I emptied the pots and found a sweet potato in each pot. I've left them laying on a shelf in my basement and they seem OK. At least they are firm and not moldy. I want to get sprouts from them for this year if I can. How do you root a sweet potato?? Do I cut them in half and stick the cut end in a saucer of water?? Do I stick toothpicks in them and suspend them in the top of a jar full of water?? I think we did this as children but sheesh that's 45 years ago and I can't remember the details. Peace! Dan D. Louisville KY good ole USA http://ky-dan.com sorry my e-mail in the headers is dead this one will work -- kydan at myrealbox dot com |
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How do I root a sweet potato
In article , "David
Hare-Scott" wrote: "paghat" wrote in message news To root for a sweet potato, you hold it upward in your hand & cry out in its presence: "Hip hip HOORAY. Hip hip HOORAY." -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ Colloquial phrases are difficult in an international forum. Around here the verb "to root" has a different meaning, it's hard to put it delicately but ...hmmm... well if it applied to sweet potatos you might think your hamster was also at risk. David I suppose this qualifies as a gardening topic. When I was a counsellor at the Counselling Service, I had to keep a straight face & not seem shocked by a chap who wanted to be reassured he wasn't too weird to live because he had a vegetable fetish. I tried to keep reminding myself "I know lots of women who've done it with veggies, why should it seem weirder if a guy does it? Anyway, who does it hurt?" then reassure him he was not too weird to live. He had all sorts of ways of gettiing it on with all sorts of veggies, but the only one I remember two decades later is how he'd worked out the "oven" times to get a pumpkin or squash to the temperature he preferred, then would carve a hole in the warm pumpkin just his size. I mentioned to some friends at a gathering (when the subject of fetishes came up) that I'd once counselled a vegetable fetishist, & someone at the gathering piped in that as a projectionist he once had a horrible job working in a porno theater. Horrible less because of the films than from having to clean up messes in the theater, which was sometimes a gross-out depending on what the customers had been doing. He said the weirdest thing he ever had to pick up & throw away was some guy's hollowed-out pickle. -paghat the ratgirl -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
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How do I root a sweet potato
"Geoff" wrote in message
... On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 10:51:35 -0700, (paghat) wrote: He said the weirdest thing he ever had to pick up & throw away was some guy's hollowed-out pickle. -paghat the ratgirl So he'd been involved in some covert kind of drill!?? Geoff Does that mean he drilled the hole thing, Geoff? ;-) John |
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How do I root a sweet potato
Not at all surprised that BJ has some kinky ideas of what to do with a sweet
potato root!!! B & J wrote in message ... "Geoff" wrote in message ... On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 10:51:35 -0700, (paghat) wrote: He said the weirdest thing he ever had to pick up & throw away was some guy's hollowed-out pickle. -paghat the ratgirl So he'd been involved in some covert kind of drill!?? Geoff Does that mean he drilled the hole thing, Geoff? ;-) John |
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How do I root a sweet potato
Now, keep up with the plot Cereoid, and don't get *yourself* in such a
pickle. Paghat's story and John's follow up was about someone who had taken advantage of a pickle, not a sweet potato root. By all means try to use a pickle thread to root out what you perceive to be deviant behaviour, but nobody will be rooting for you if you pick all your arguments from flawed premises that are easily able to be rooted out! Regards Geoff On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 17:11:08 GMT, "Cereoid+10" wrote: Not at all surprised that BJ has some kinky ideas of what to do with a sweet potato root!!! B & J wrote in message ... "Geoff" wrote in message ... On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 10:51:35 -0700, (paghat) wrote: He said the weirdest thing he ever had to pick up & throw away was some guy's hollowed-out pickle. -paghat the ratgirl So he'd been involved in some covert kind of drill!?? Geoff Does that mean he drilled the hole thing, Geoff? ;-) John |
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How do I root a sweet potato
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 21:37:46 -0700, "Dwayne" wrote:
The best way is to lay them on the ground or in a container in the house, which ever works best for you and depending how far south you live. Cover them with about an inch of sand and water it slightly. If it is warm enough, it will start growing slips that will come out of the sand. When they get 7 to 9 inches tall, hold the potatoe down with the fingers of one hand, and pull a slip up with the other. Remove any leaves for 3 or 4 inches up, and set it in a cup or glass of water. You dont want any leaves in the water. Leave it there for 2 or 3 days, and then plant it outside in the garden, or pot. Good luck. Dwayne Dan D. wrote I had 3 different varieties of decorative sweet potato vines in hanging pots last season. When frost was right around the corner last fall I emptied the pots and found a sweet potato in each pot. I've left them laying on a shelf in my basement and they seem OK. At least they are firm and not moldy. I want to get sprouts from them for this year if I can. How do you root a sweet potato?? Dwayne's suggestion sounds about right. The people that grew sweet potatoes in a community garden always set out "slips." As for rooting one, they seem pretty hard to *stop* from rooting. I expect cutting up with at least one 'eye' per chunk, and putting into moist sand or planter mix would do just fine. A sweet potato simply left out in some light will often (usually?) begin to produce sprouts |
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How do I root a sweet potato
"Frogleg" wrote in message ... On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 21:37:46 -0700, "Dwayne" wrote: The best way is to lay them on the ground or in a container in the house, which ever works best for you and depending how far south you live. Cover them with about an inch of sand and water it slightly. If it is warm enough, it will start growing slips that will come out of the sand. When they get 7 to 9 inches tall, hold the potatoe down with the fingers of one hand, and pull a slip up with the other. Remove any leaves for 3 or 4 inches up, and set it in a cup or glass of water. You dont want any leaves in the water. Leave it there for 2 or 3 days, and then plant it outside in the garden, or pot. Good luck. Dwayne Dan D. wrote I had 3 different varieties of decorative sweet potato vines in hanging pots last season. When frost was right around the corner last fall I emptied the pots and found a sweet potato in each pot. I've left them laying on a shelf in my basement and they seem OK. At least they are firm and not moldy. I want to get sprouts from them for this year if I can. How do you root a sweet potato?? Dwayne's suggestion sounds about right. The people that grew sweet potatoes in a community garden always set out "slips." As for rooting one, they seem pretty hard to *stop* from rooting. I expect cutting up with at least one 'eye' per chunk, and putting into moist sand or planter mix would do just fine. A sweet potato simply left out in some light will often (usually?) begin to produce sprouts It all depends on what you expect from the sweet potatoes. Do you want to raise a beautiful plant for in the house, or on the patio, or do you want to produce a crop of sweet potatoes? I learned my method from the guys who grew them to eat in Arkansas. With this method you could get up to 10 slips per potato. I just looked at one of my seed potatoes that I am going to use this year, and it has 3 slips already coming out of it, not from an "eye", but on the stem. Have you ever tried planting an eye, and if so, what kind of luck did you have. I have used my method for four years now and last year I planted nearly 100 sweet potato plants and gave extra slips to three people for their garden at 10 to 15 slips each. That came from approximately 20 seed potatoes. Try it both ways and from then on, use the method you like best. Let us know how you did. Good luck. Dwayne |
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