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RcWeston, Your sweet potato must come from a variety with purple foliage. There are quite a few. They're beautiful and practical. I have started slips from grocery store sweet potatoes. Not every one will do. But usually, out of several, by this time of the year, there is one with little sprouts starting to form. Also, it's often possible to get one to start sprouting by keeping it warm and exposing it to light and moisture. The sweet potatoes produced from such slips are usually quite good. Here's a link to a simple guide I did, for sweet potatoes. George Tahlequah, OK Here is a link that might be useful: Starting & Saving Your Own Sweet Potatoes

Thanks so much for all the advice and information grandad, toogreen, farmerdilla and wayne. It sounds easy indeed, now I wonder why we did not try this before. In the worst heat of the summer, only the okra looked good last year. I cannot believe that plant, flowering when it is 107 F!!!! crazy plant (I love it). This year we are adding cow peas and sweet potatoes to the hot weather vegetable clan. Why not? might as well take advantage of what grows well here and now. We cannot grow parsnips or cherries, so we might as well grow sweet potatoes. We have several roots (tubers?) starting, I only showed one, but we have white sweet potato and red sweet potatoes. They have different types of leaves, as shown in Farmerdilla's picture. Farmerdilla, your picture is nice, thanks for posting it. We might do a bed just like that, still have a few recycled pieces of lumber to use for garden beds. I think that 500 slips is a bit much for us, we might do from 12 to 20 slips. Since each averages about 6 sweet potatoes, this should give us plenty for feeding two not too large people. Besides, we are also growing other 'starchy' root crops, regular potatoes (to be harvested soon), jerusalem artichokes, chayote (the root is edible) and some weird tropical ones (elephant ears types). I take it that the level of development shown in the pictures I posted is just about right for taking the slips? not too large but large enough? or perhaps they could be 'harvested' as slips a little younger? We still have them in water but we will plant them in the ground, or in pots, this coming weekend.

I grow slips and have found that sometimes there is no method to the madness. This year I have some cut and some whole. They are all from the same source, and all in the exact same area, yet they all grew at different rates. Like yours some are huge, while others are very small. Some of mine that were cut in half even have different growth rates from their other half. I just think it is random. This is what I will say, if you cut your potatoes you increase the risk of fungus growth around the cut. I don't think it matters, but I have noticed they tend to rot quicker around the cut (obviously). I will be planting mine today as well. I just break them at the base and hope it has a few roots growing there. I'll trim the bottom few leaves and plant them about 3 inches deep. It seems to work for me. From what I understand sweet potatoes are not too picky. You could probably through a potato on some soil and it will eventually root.