How deep to plant sweet potatoes
Dig a hole 4-6 inches deep and place the sweet potato slip roots inside it.
The depth: Dig a hole 4-6 inches deep and place the slip roots inside the hole.
- Loosen and aerate the soil at least 6 inches deep before planting your new slips.
- Sweet potatoes grow best in soil that is fertile, moist, well drained, and nutrient rich.
- Form 8-10 inch tall raised beds to provide good drainage and a place for root development to occur.
Planting depth varies with soil type and variety; your local extension office is the closest authority.
Grounded in: extension.usu.edu, site.extension.uga.edu. Every window and number
follows sentences verified verbatim on those pages.
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