I grew my own sweet potato slips one year. It was fun. I used grocery store sweet potatoes that were probably hybrids. I prepared the sandy loam deep and made it as friable as possible. Planted the slips and they grew fast and furious. The area was just outside the garden. One day a deer mowed them down. I caught her eating the leaves. So I put up a makeshift fence that worked, and new leaves grew back pretty quick. At harvest time, the sweet potatoes were around 2 inches thick and a foot or so long. I couldn't help but laugh.
Bill, I can see growing sweet potatoes in one of the raised beds with ornamental looking pepper plants. Tabasco would look good (My avatar/picture). Thank you for the information.
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