sweet potatoes - Oriental - Slips/plants

also known as Japanese sweet potatoes or Japanese yams,

These Japanese sweet potatoes have a pink to dark purple skin and creamy golden flesh, perfect for baking or making into pies. They can be grown from slips in your own garden for a nutty and mild flavor. Different from traditional sweet potatoes, they have a thin red skin and dense yellow flesh.
I had a high yield from Japanese sweet potatoes grown in half-whiskey barrel containers, making harvesting much easier compared to a Raised Bed. Instead of digging for over an hour, all I had to do was dump the container onto newspapers and the potatoes would reveal themselves.

Treat your Oriental sweet potato slips with care, ensuring they have loose, well-drained soil for optimal growth and large tuber formation. Loose soil is crucial for successful sweet potato cultivation.

Plant slips in prepared soil with the roots pointing down. Position the slip so that the bottom half will be covered with dirt while the top half with all of the new leaves is above ground.

To ensure a successful harvest, it is important to pick sweet potatoes before any frost or freeze, regardless of your location or growing season. Look out for night time temperatures dipping into the 40s to 30s and harvest accordingly.p the plants in the ground, the larger and more numerous your harvest will be.