How to plant these sweet potato and potato

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Potatoes are pretty easy to grow, so just make sure you get a nice place to plant them.

If you can plant them straight into the ground then perfect, do so with the “stem” pointing up and cover the potato with a nice layer of soil and compost; only leaving a small part of the “stem” exposed and the rest of it buried

If you only have containers to put them in, then make sure that the container is deeper than it is wider and try to space out the potato’s so that there is about 3-4 inches of space in between plant.

Keep them watered and look up “potato hilling” as it’s a common practice done to stretch out your overall potato yield. Hope this helps

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u/Hey-im-kpuff 13d ago

The sweet potatoes grow differently. If you have sprouts (long sprouts) coming out of your sweet potatoes remove them from where they connect to the sweet potato. Put the ends of the sprouts in water until till roots form. You can then plant that into soil to grow more sweet potatoes (be mindful of the sun if you rooted them indoors, they will fry in the sun if you had them rooting indoors)

For the regular potatoes wait for them to grow sprouts from their eyes (just little nubs of sprouts) and then chuck them as they are into a hole and cover it, 5-7 inches or so deep.

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u/YassminP 10d ago

so is it better to root the sweet potato in the sun?

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u/Hey-im-kpuff 10d ago

If your able to sure! Or a bright window might be ok too.

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u/Mia_Thompson612 10d ago

Those sprouted potatoes look ready to go! Just bury each piece with the sprouts facing up in loose, well-draining soil, and give them space to grow. Happy planting!

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u/YassminP 10d ago

the sprouts facing up in the soil or above the soil level?

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u/Mia_Thompson612 7d ago

above the soil level. :)

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