What exactly are sweet potato slips?
Rooted cuttings basically. What I did was sit the sweet potato in a box with a thin layer of potting compost on the bottom ( about 2.5cm) and place it somewhere light and warmish (say 60F) and they will sprout and then root. These are simply pulled off the potatoes and potted on, the potatoes will then make more slips. And can you use supermarket bought sweet potatoes (once ‘slipped’) to plant out to grown your own, rather than buying slips from seed suppliers. You can but they will be foreign grown ones and therefore not that suitable for the UK with our short naff summers. Even growing on my own slips early from small potatoes grown from bought slips the previous year we still didn’t get a usable crop. In this country they need a good long sunny summer and plenty of water. BTW they are also very susceptible to slug damage so if your normal spuds get problems with slugs you won’t get much of a sweet potato crop left even if you get that far. Perhaps in a big polytunnel they would be w
