When it comes to vegetables from the garden sweet potatoes are a family favorite. The delicious sugary sweet baked sweet potato is an amazing side dish! Or we sometimes roast sweet potatoes with other vegetables to make a delicious dish in our favorite iron skillet. The nice thing about sweet potatoes is how easy they are to grow. In 2020 I grew some sweet potato slips from a grocery store potato and they did amazing in the garden last year. I saved one sweet potato from the harvest and grew some new slips for 2021.
What You Need to Make Sweet Potato Slips
To grow sweet potato slips all we needed was a mason jar, a sweet potato to start from, water, light, and a little time.
How Start the Slips
The method is very simple. Put the sweet potato in the jar, fill with water, put in spot with some light, then wait for the sprouts to grow. Once sprouted the slips can be separated off of the main tuber and put into a jar of water to continue to grow roots.
The last step is to plant them outdoors in our garden beds where they will grow to produce a bunch of sweet tasting tubers!
Watch the video below for more of an explanation and to see my results!
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Make Sweet Potato Slips from Cuttings
Sweet Potato Slips are easy to make from sweet potatoes but you can also make more slips from the vines themselves. Once your slips have been planted you can begin taking cuttings of them and putting them in a jar of water to root. Sweet potato vines (edible or ornamental varieties) will root very easily in water. What is especially nice about these slips is that they can be taken from the garden as you prune you sweet potato beds.
I find that after growing for a while the vines begin to get leggy and encroach into the garden pathways. I can clip back the portions from the pathways and make more sweet potatoes to place in other locations.
Propagating your own sweet potatoes from cuttings or potatoes is extremely easy and a very low cost way to provide yourself with a tasty treat from the garden!
