Sweet Potatoes

It's still a couple of months before I'll be able to plant a garden, but now's the time to start propagating some plants.

Some of last year's sweet potatoes grow sprouts over the winter and I'm trying a couple of methods to propagate new plants for this year's crop. This method requires suspending a sweet potato in water to grow sprouts.

Another method I'm trying is to place a sweet potato in wet soil to grow roots and sprouts. New sprouts (cuttings) are cut from the sweet potato and placed in water or wet soil to develop roots.

After a couple of days in water or wet soil the cuttings will develop roots.

The rooted cuttings are then placed in potting soil to grow.

I also had a friendly wasp that was interested in growing sweet potatoes ...

The wasp thought the new sprouts were tasty.