Sweet Potato- Plants/SLIPS, Vardaman

Grow your own delicious and nutritious  Bush Sweet Potatoes with our high-quality slips. Easy to grow and perfect for any home gardener, these sweet potatoes are packed with vitamins and minerals, making them a healthy addition to any meal.

The Vardaman sweet potato is a "bush" variety that yields a compact plant with no trailing vines, making it ideal for those with limited space. Its golden outer skin and rich orange flesh make it a highly sought-after choice for container and raised bed gardens among our customers.

These sweet potatoes have a firm texture for frying and roasting and a longer storage life than moist varieties.

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

You will receive bare-root "slips." Expect them to be wilted, dry, or pale in color from shipping. This is normal. Slips are very hardy and will still grow. If planting must be delayed by a few days, wrap the root end of the slips in moist paper towels, keeping the leaves and stems dry. Place upright and keep at room temperature, out of direct sunlight and wind.

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.