CAROLINA RUBY SWEET POTATO SLIPS

Carolina Ruby has a red skin that gives beautiful contrast to a deep orange flesh. Very tasty with good disease resistance. Dark orange flesh when cooked and a very smooth ruby skin. Perhaps the most strikingly red of the red-skinned sweet potatoes. Heart-shaped green leaves with red-purple veins. High level of resistance to Fusarium wilt and soil rot. Some resistance to flea beetle. Moist texture and moderate sweetness. Stores well

Sweet potatoes like warm weather, so make sure all danger of frost has passed before you put your new plants outside. It's best if temperatures have consistently been at least 65 degrees Fahrenheit for several days.

IMPORTANT

Upon arrival, your bare-root "slips" may appear wilted, dry, or pale in color due to shipping. This is completely normal. Despite their initial appearance, slips are resilient and will thrive in your garden. If needed, you can moisten paper towels and wrap them around the root end of the slips, while keeping the leaves and stems dry. Keep the slips upright at room temperature, away from direct sunlight and wind, until you are ready to plant.

Sweet potatoes grow best in well-drained, sandy loam soil with a pH of about 6.5.

I have started Sweet Potatoes in seven half-whiskey barrel containers.

I got just as much yield from the container as I did from a Raised Bed, but it was so much easier to harvest the  Sweet Potatoes in the container. It would take me over an hour to dig up the Raised Bed and find all of the Okinawan Sweet Potatoes. With the container, all I had to do was to dump the container onto some newspapers and the  Sweet Potatoes would just appear. No digging. No HUNTING.