Sweet Potatoes Sprouted? How to Plant Them: The Correct Planting Method

The sweet potato is a plant we quite like to eat; its leaves can be used as a vegetable, and its tubers are sweet, glutinous and filling. How should you plant a sweet potato bought at home once it has sprouted?

How to plant a sprouted sweet potato

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 are full, cut off the sprouts with leaves and place them in a shallow bowl filled with water to grow 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 with each hole about 30 cm apart, plant the sweet potato seedlings one by one, cover them with soil, and water them well. The leafy part of the sweet potato will grow vines outward, while the roots will grow tubers 15-30 cm deep in the soil.

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

Although a sprouted sweet potato can still be eaten, its taste is so-so; by planting it further, we can make it grow more sweet potatoes.