Growing Sweet Potatoes In Raised Beds

Cutting the seed potatoes for planting.

Growing sweet potatoes in raised beds.

This way by the time the hole is filled you still have the same amount of dirt in the raised bed and your potatoes are hilled underground. How to plant potatoes in a raised bed chitting the seed potatoes. Potato planting in raised beds step by step dig trenches 4 6 inches deep. May 10th 24 days after planting a simple and easy solution for planting potatoes.

Once the seed potatoes have chitted and sprouted some eyes it is time to cut. Broadcast spread 4 pounds of a 5 10 10 slow release fertilizer for every 100 feet of row when preparing the soil. A raised bed in an area with plenty of sun especially afternoon sun that also has good drainage will be perfect for sweet potatoes. All they need is a little green out the top in order to keep growing up.

Just know that they are a vining plant so they will just grow and spill over the sides of the garden bed and down on to the ground so plan on plenty of space for them. How to grow sweet potatoes in a raised garden 1. Let the seed potato. Otherwise increase the spacing to 12 apart.

Plant the slips as the transplants are called into the bed so that the leaves are above the soil live and space them water the plants 1 2 times a week for the first month or so after you. Plant the sweet potato slips 12 inches apart in an 8 inch high and 12 inch wide planting mound created along the. If in a rich planting bed space them 8 inches apart in rows 8 inches apart if you intend to take an earlier harvest of some of the potatoes. You can use all kinds of materials for a raised bed including beds made out of traditional wood metal or plastic.

Gardening in raised beds and the soil mix we use on our homestead. Without a doubt planting in raised beds can produce some of the highest yields in your potato garden. The seed potatoes must first be chitted for a little while before planting.