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how many sweet potato slips to plant? planning question

merrybookwyrm
12 years ago

I was trying to figure out how many sweet potato slips to plant if we actually wanted a homegrown Supply.

Is this anywhere near what the experienced would do?

If we want a minimum of 2 sweet potatoes per person per week per year, that would mean 104 sweet potatoes per garden. One source claimed a single sweet potato slip would make between 4 and 10 tubers, so assume 4 tubers per slip. That would mean 26 slips to plant, assuming nothing destroyed the slips or the forming tubers.

Someone posted a saying, plant "one for the rook, one for the crow, one to rot, and one to grow" about seeds. If this applies to sweet potato slips, then 26 x 4 = 104 sweet potato slips to supply 104 sweet potatoes?

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