I bought the slips from Territorial Seed a couple months ago and they arrived in the mail on Friday, in a cute little box with "LIVE PLANTS" printed on the side. Carefully opening it up, I found about 18 tiny slips, which are sprouted potatoes, each about 12 inches long. I also planted a few slips we grew from a grocery store purchased potato.
Planting was easy - just mounded up the soil, made a furrow, and dropped them in. They're hardy plants, but we did have a ferocious storm blow through a few hours after I planted them, followed by a lot of rain, but that's par for the course around here.
I'm hoping that my one row of sweet potatoes will net about 100 pounds of edibles. If things work out, I'm going to pay more attention to them next year, over regular Irish potatoes since we all prefer sweets in this household.
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