How to plant sweet potatoes when they sprout?

Sweet potatoes are cooked, sweet, soft and waxy, suitable for all ages. Sometimes it is easy to sprout if it is not properly preserved at home. How to grow sweet potatoes when they sprout?

First, how to plant sweet potatoes after sprouting

1. If the sweet potato has just sprouted, you can put the germinated sweet potato in a bottle filled with water to make the bud grow taller and more.

2. After the sweet potato buds are full, cut off the buds with leaves, put them in a shallow bowl filled with water, and cultivate the roots.

3. After the roots are relatively dense, they can be transplanted.

4. Sweet potatoes like a warm environment. We choose good sunlit, loose and fertile land, dig a good planting pit, each hole is about 30 centimeters apart, plant sweet potato seedlings one by one, cover the soil, and pour enough water. The leaves of sweet potatoes will grow vines, while the roots will grow tubers 15-30 centimeters deep in the soil.

5. At the beginning, we need to replenish water every day, but in the later stage, we can irrigate water once a week, properly supply some fertilizers, and do a good job of weeding. In about 120 days, sweet potatoes will almost be able to mature.

Second, how to preserve sweet potatoes

1. To keep sweet potatoes at home, first find a wooden box or cardboard box, pad some boards in the corner, put the wooden box or cardboard box on, put some dry straw on the bottom of the box, put the sweet potato in, the temperature is below 15 ℃, spread some things to keep warm, open the box when the weather is good, the temperature is high, when the sun comes out, ventilate and breathe, it can be preserved for a long time.

2. Wrap it in a cool place with a newspaper so that it can be kept for about 3-4 weeks. The sweet potatoes should be dried before the parcel is preserved. Sweet potatoes can also be wrapped in newspapers and put in the refrigerator fresh room, so that sweet potatoes will be preserved for a longer time and will not sprout.

3. A small amount of sweet potatoes can be steamed, dried and sliced to dry. Sweet potatoes have low dry moisture content, so they can be preserved for a long time.

Sweet potato sprouting can also continue to grow, through their own efforts, to obtain new sweet potatoes.