Georgia jet sweet potato growing. Georgia jet sweet potatoes are high yielding deep in color and bake soft with a delicious taste. The ideal time to plant is late in the afternoon after the hottest part of the day on a day that is not windy. If your summer is short pick an early variety like beauregard or georgia jet to ensure youll have enough time to harvest and cure your potatoes before frost arrives.
Its sweet moist mildly fibrous and bright orange flesh make it a classic sweet potato perfect for baking. Famed for enormous harvests and quality crops across the country. This sweet potato is a marvelous variety that just like its name suggests matures extremely fast.
Plant sweet potatoes in ridges 8 12 inches high and 3 feet apart. Great for truckers and peddlers. We ship sweet potato slips from mid may to early june beginning with southernmost areas but may be pre ordered starting in december.
Set the plants 10 18 inches apart. Georgia is the perfect place to grow sweet potatoes ipomea atatas. In spite of the sweet potatos southern reputation georgia jet is cold tolerant and can be planted successfully even in areas with short growing seasons.
A long hot growing season is ideal for growing these tuber like roots. Georgia jets is also high yielding. Cold tolerant and can be successful in areas with short growing seasons.
Will ship separate from onion plants. Can be grown in 20 gallon grow tub. Plant these vining plants 15 to 20 apart and enjoy the beautiful flowers they produce before harvest time.
Sweet potatoes are considered a long season crop and georgias long hot summers allow them to grow and mature well here. Choose a sunny location with a loose easily worked well drained soil. Sweet potatoes are grown from slips which are rooted sprouts from mature tubers.
In 90 days you will have large ready to eat sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes prefer a soil ph of 55 to 65. Each package contains carefully bundled slips and a copy of our sweet potato growing guide.
The georgia jet is great for our northern neighbors. Ipomoea batatas slips are vine cuttings from sprouted sweet potatoes for transplanting to your garden in the spring. It has a rose petal skin that truly stands out in the field and a light orange meat.
Matures about 90 days with normal rainfall. Now with short season sweet potato varieties such as georgia jet and soil warming growing techniques gardeners everywhere can enjoy growing this easy and delicious crop. When you plant regular potatoes you simply bury pieces of potato from last years crop.
Georgia jet is a superb baker with sweet and meaty deep orange flesh and a rich sugary aroma that fills your kitchen whenever these orange gold tubers are tucked into the oven. Certified georgia jets is such a fast growing sweet potato. The sweet potato is suitable for growing in zones 3 11 as an annual and zones 8 11 as a perennial.