Starting Sweet potato slips or plants

[Weedygarden]

I have yet to successfully grow sweet potatoes. I am looking for tips for all of you who have grown them successfully.

I had a colleague who grew a sweet potato plant in her classroom and grew it year round. I don't remember much about it, except that it was a nice vine.

I went to an Asian grocery store this week and purchased 4 smaller sweet potatoes, all different varieties to start them. I searched for information on how to grow them and came up with this video. I thought that people started them with the toothpicks in them suspended in a container of water. I think I have tried that before.

 

[DrHenley]

I have yet to successfully grow sweet potatoes. I am looking for tips for all of you who have grown them successfully.

I had a colleague who grew a sweet potato plant in her classroom and grew it year round. I don't remember much about it, except that it was a nice vine.

I went to an Asian grocery store this week and purchased 4 smaller sweet potatoes, all different varieties to start them. I searched for information on how to grow them and came up with this video. I thought that people started them with the toothpicks in them suspended in a container of water. I think I have tried that before.

I can get the plants to grow just fine, but they make tiny little potatoes a few millimeters in diameter.