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by Little Red Owl Press (Author), Cristina Santiestevan (Author)
Delicious, nutritious, and surprisingly easy to grow, sweet potatoes are a fun and rewarding additional to any vegetable garden or edible landscape. This concise guide shares the best practices for growing this often-overlooked crop in home gardens, shows readers how to start and plant their own sweet potato slips from store-bought tubers, and includes advice for harvesting, curing, and storing homegrown sweet potatoes for wintertime use.Features full-color photographs throughout and includes includes advice for growing sweet potatoes in containers, traditional vegetable gardens, and edible landscapes. This is the perfect guide for any gardener looking to grow abundant and healthy sweet potatoes in their garden or landscape, and then enjoy their delicious success all winter long. Author and gardener Cristina Santiestevan perfected these techniques in her own organic vegetable garden. She routinely harvests enough sweets to eat all winter long, with some left over to start her own slips again the following spring.
