Planting Sweet Potato Slips: Cover the Tuber Completely

When transplanting rooted sweet potato slips, bury the entire tuber just below the soil surface. Exposed tubers turn green and inedible.

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Mound soil or straw over the row as tubers swell to keep them covered and improve yield.

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