How to Plant Sprouted Sweet Potatoes: A Detailed Guide to Growing Sprouted Sweet Potatoes

Once sweet potatoes are cooked, they have a captivating aroma and a sweet, delicious taste that people love. Sometimes when you buy too many sweet potatoes and store them improperly, they grow small sprouts. How do you plant sprouted sweet potatoes?

1. How to plant sprouted sweet potatoes

1. If the sweet potato has just sprouted, you can place the sprouted sweet potato in a bottle filled with water so the sprouts grow taller and more numerous.

2. Once the sweet potato sprouts have grown in fully, cut off the leafy sprouts and place them in a shallow bowl filled with water to develop roots.

3. Once the roots have grown fairly dense, they can be transplanted.

4. Sweet potatoes like a warm environment, so choose land with good sunlight and loose, fertile soil, dig the planting holes about 30 cm apart, plant the sweet potato slips one by one, cover them with soil, and water thoroughly. The leafy part of the sweet potato will send out vines outward, while the roots will form tubers 15-30 cm deep in the soil.

5. At first you need to supply water every day; later you can water once a week, add some fertilizer as appropriate, and keep up with weeding. After about 120 days, the sweet potatoes will be more or less ready to harvest.

2. How to store sweet potatoes so they do not sprout

1. First choose a relatively enclosed balcony, or a room with some ventilation. Find a wooden box or cardboard box, place some wooden boards at the corner of the wall, set the wooden box or cardboard box on top, spread some dry straw on the bottom of the box, put the sweet potatoes in, and when the temperature is below 15°C spread something over them to keep them warm. When the weather is good, the temperature is high, and the sun is out, open the box for a bit to ventilate and exchange the air. They can be stored for a long time this way.

2. You can also simply wrap them in newspaper and put them in a cool, shaded place, which will keep them for about 3-4 weeks. Before wrapping, sun-dry the sweet potatoes first, then store them. Or wrap the sweet potatoes in newspaper and put them in the refrigerator crisper, which will keep them even longer and prevent them from sprouting.

3. A small amount of sweet potatoes can be steamed, dried, sliced, and sun-dried for storage. Dried sweet potatoes have a low moisture content, so they can be kept for a long time.

Planting sprouted sweet potatoes is fairly convenient, though growing them in flower pots is not recommended. Friends who are interested can give it a try themselves.