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    Anyone ever done this? I planted some sweet potatoes in my garden and those things are growing like dang kudzu vines. I've done this a few Summers now and always had good results.

    But I didn't have enough room to plant all the slips so I got some grow bags to put the rest in. Without a doubt they've got more room per slip in those grow bags than they do in the ground but they aren't growing well.

    We'll be at 90 days Aug 14th and I just dug into 2 of the grow bags last night to check. They're growing really small tubers. Like an inch in diameter and 3 or 4 inches long. Vines haven't grown big at all.

    Such a bummer since I am not a man of much patience so I already hate waiting 90-100 days for them. Any things to know for trying this next time that I might have done wrong? Can I just keep letting them grow well past the 100 day mark and maybe get a couple larger ones? It'll be plenty warm enough for at least another 2 months.

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    Can’t do it. They’ll get the alpha toxin.
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    Go Tigers!

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    Quote Originally Posted by SaltMuck View Post
    Can’t do it. They’ll get the alpha toxin.
    What's alpha toxin? Is that like toxic masculinity from being an alpha male? I do have a lot of that.

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    Farmers market, 2 for a buck

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    We planted four bags with limited success. They grow much better in the ground

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    They would be better grown on Uranus since that is how they taste...

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    Do ducks really like sweat potato’s? I never could tell when I put them out if the ducks where coming to the corn or the sweet potatoes.

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    Not as far as I could ever tell...

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    I cut a 55 gallon drum in half and used it to make two planters. Planted 3 or 4 slips in each one. They did well, ended up with probably a 5 gallon bucket or more of sweet potatoes in various sizes and shapes. The vines even traveled to my other raised bed and I found several sweet potatoes in there.
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    I dont know how it was done. For all I know that weird bastard that determined it's gender licked it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by santee11 View Post
    Do ducks really like sweat potato’s? I never could tell when I put them out if the ducks where coming to the corn or the sweet potatoes.
    Nope,i had a valley that got flooded one year and wanted to see for myself.so i set out a trail cam and spread corn and sweet taters out in different piles.woodies stayed to the corn and the coons and deer were the only ones that ate the taters.

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