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Sweet Potato Plant Starting Tips
Sweet potatoes are a warm-weather crop. They require a long, hot growing season. Sweet potatoes are grown from rooted cuttings, called “slips” or “draws”. Slips are best started indoors from sweet potato tubers. Slips stated indoors take about 12 weeks to reach transplant size. Transplant sweet potato slips into the garden after all danger of […] More
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How to Harvest and Store Sweet Potatoes
Harvest sweet potatoes as soon as they are big enough to eat—usually when the ends of the vines begin to turn yellow. Harvest sweet potatoes before the vines are touched by frost. Frost can damage the tubers below. Related articles: When to harvest sweet potatoes How to harvest sweet potatoes How to cure sweet potatoes […] More
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Seven Ways to Cook and Serve Sweet Potatoes
Sweet potatoes can be cooked and prepared in just about every way a potato can. Favorite sweet potato recipe Sweet Potato Pancakes Two types of sweet potato How to choose a sweet potato How to store sweet potatoes How to prepare sweet potatoes for cooking How to bake a sweet potato How to roast a […] More
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Sweet Potato Pancakes Recipe
Serve sweet potato pancakes with bacon and eggs at breakfast or as a side dish with chicken or ham at supper time. These pancakes aren’t too far a cry from sweet potato pie but just enough. And they aren’t the boiled and mashed sweet potatoes you serve alongside turkey and mashed potatoes. Maple syrup or […] More
Stephen Albert
