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Re: Sweet Potatoes

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At 06:15 PM 1/8/2000 -0500, you wrote:
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>Katherine,
>
>We are zone 4 and have been growing sweet potatoes for over 12 years in
raised
>beds.  We use a wide row method more than square foot.  We mound the soil,
>cover it with a length of soaker hose, top off with black plastic and then it
>heat up.  Here we plant the last week of May.  I space the plants 12-18
inches
>apart.  Once planted we cover with remay and then make a mini greenhouse for
>each 4 x 10 bed with clear plastic.  We eat sweet potatoes at least once per
>week and  50' worth of plants does our family right.  I also use raw sweet
>potato in the veggie mush I feed our three dogs.  After trying many varieties
>we have settled on Georgia Jets and get them from Jung's Nursery.  I have
seen
>slips in almost all the major seed catalogues.  One secret we had to learn
the
>hard way is to keep the plants  as far away from the tomatoes as possible and
>to make sure there has been at least two years between the planting of
tomatoes
>and sweet potatoes in the same bed.  We now do a four point rotation and keep
>them on opposite ends of our 15 bed system.  Happy growing.
>
>Deany, zone 4/WI
>
I know you're not supposed to grow potatoes where other solanacea have
grown for the past few years, but sweet potatoes are Ipomoea batatas, I
don't think in the same family as solanaceae, are they? Is this the reason
you're not following tomatoes with sweet potatoes?  TIA, Margaret L


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