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is it as easy as cutting a piece of a sweetpotato and planting it ? i doubt it

i am busy putting a greenhouse together - so will have a bit of extra warmth to help it grow

There have been recent threads on this straush.  The search function will bring them up.  And you're right.  It's not that easy.

mmm, not bringing back anything recent -  only 3 posts from 2007 - recipe, a picture and a question about whetehr they grow or not .... any ideas what i am doing wrong

hope this works, can't do links  ;D
mind you, I start mine off in a glass of water, supported with cocktail sticks in the potato
  sweet potato article
« on: January 30, 2007, 19:52:57 » 

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Ive just dug out the article I read from Kitchen garden magazine by Sue Strickland, oct 06
" use only healthy tubers..start them off by giving them hot, humid conditions.I put each tuber in a pot, just under the surface of moist well-drained gritty compost, and keep the pots in a propagator or on the central heating pipes-
aim for a temperature of 20-30c. keep the compost just damp but not sodden, and the shoots should eventually start to appear- I find this usually takes about three weeks or more in my conditions
Once a shoot gets to 23-25cm in length, pull it off gently from the tuber- it will often come away with a bit of root attached.
pot these shoots up as you would bought in slips, and keep them in warm conditions until planting"
" Sweet potatoes need about three or four months of warm days and nights to produce a reasonable crop of tubers"

hope this helps with all your sweet potato questions   

Don't know what you were searching for straush.  Here's one of the recent threads I pulled up searching for sweet potatoes.

http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,47990.0.html

I'm guessing sweetpotato as one word wasn't recognised  ;) but search does have a strange way of working sometimes!

thanks

am guessing it sweetpotato vs sweet potatoes

Have a look at my web page.

Growing Sweet potatos

Saddad is a sweet potato king.....mind you he does have the use of our sites lovely old schools greeenhouse to grow them in...I still haven't forgiven him for growing some fab watermelons from one of my plants in there last year .....that I totally failed with in my little greenhouse! >:(

Excellent page that Eristic much more detailed than mine.

http://www.thegardenersalmanac.co.uk/Data/Sweet%20Potato/Sweet%20Potato.htm

   ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D to DebP
I'm no expert, I buy in my slips!