Growing Sweet Potatoes

Seed
Planting time:	SU
Seeds per ounce:	-
Ounces per square foot:	2
Minimum legal germination rate:	-
Germination type:	Long Germination

Notes Growing Sweet Potatoes is very easy but takes patience as they take up to 238 days to mature. Sweet potatoes are a tender, warm-weather root vegetable. Sweet potatoes are native to Central and South America and are one of the most important staple food crops in tropical and subtropical countries where both the roots and shoots are eaten. Sweet Potatoes are related to the Morning Glory that grows vines that will quickly cover the soil, rooting at the nodes along the way.

Planting
In garden spacing (inches):	9
In flat spacing (inches):	-
Planting depth (inches):	3
Maxiumum number of plants per square foot:	2.5
Nutrient relationship::	Light Feeder,Low Nitrogen User

Harvest
Days to maturity:	182-238
Harvesting period (days):	-
Minimum yields in pounds /square foot:	.1

Cultural
Diseases:	Black Rot, Fusarium Wilt, Scurf.
Insect pests:(Insect Pest Finder)	Army Cutworm, Cabbage Looper, Colorado Potato Beetle, Cutworm, Eastern Field Wireworm, Flea Beetle, Fourlined Plant Bug, Green Peach Aphid, Greenhouse Whitefly, Leafminer, Pea Aphid, Potato Leafhopper, Spider Mites, Striped Cucumber Beetle, Vegetable Weevil, Whitefringed Beetle

Varieties
Beauregard, Bunch Porto Ricos, Carolina Bunch, Centennial, Excel, Garnet, Georgia Jet, Hernandez, Jewel, Kotobuki, Nancy Hall, New Jewel, O'Henry, Porto Rican, Red Jewel, Regal, Southern Delite, Sumor, Vardaman, Yellow Jersey

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