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Growing Sweet Potatoes - Organic Gardening

Apr
01

In The Garden: Revisiting Sweet Potatoes

Posted by Adina

The sweet potato plant has multiple uses in the garden as a root crop, a leaf crop, and a cover crop. All parts can be used to feed livestock as well as people and it is at its best growing in hot dry sandy soil. This is a great permaculture crop for South Florida.

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Jul
22

In The Garden: Growing Sweet Potatoes

Posted by Adina

This is a great time to be growing Sweet Potatoes in the garden. They don’t mind the weather this hot,and as long as they are in well drained soil they can take whatever rain we are getting. Sweet Potato slips planted now (July) here in S. Florida would be ready in time for Autumn dinners, Continue reading →

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