<p>Sweet potato &#8220;slips&#8221; are rooted cuttings from sprouted sweet potatoes. They can look wilted but they&#8217;ll grow quickly once you plant them.</p>

Sweet potato “slips” are rooted cuttings from sprouted sweet potatoes. They can look wilted but they’ll grow quickly once you plant them.

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Time to Plant Sweet Potatoes
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Steve Boehme Now that the unseasonably cool spring weather is behind us, it’s time to get your sweet potatoes started. Sweet potatoes need a long season of sunny days to mature, so you need to them into the ground by early June. In the same p...

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