Here’s a short video showing how to plant sweet potato “slips.”<\/a>) Give them water through the summer. Come fall — voila! — you’ll be digging up sweet potatoes that look like the one you buried last fall (now).<\/p>\nSo if you want to grow some sweet potatoes next summer, pick up a tuber next time you’re at the grocery store and bury it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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