How to Cultivate Sweet Potatoes - Sweet potatoes or commonly called sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas L.) is a kind of cultivated plants, the part utilized from sweet potato is the root that forms tubers with high levels of nutrients (carbohydrates).
To cultivate sweet potatoes, first you have to cultivate the soil that will be used for planting media because the soil condition is very influential on the growth of plants so the soil becomes loose, fertile and free from pests.
To cultivate the soil, then you have to solve and loosen the soil for water circulation and the air to be good and smooth. Water and air are needed by plants including the tubers.
On loose soil, the seeds grow easily sprout, the roots grow easily and penetrate the soil, and the tubers will grow without difficulty.
After that, turn off the grass, weeds and pests that are in the ground. Grass and weeds and pests that are dead buried and decomposed in the soil will actually become humus.
When it is cultivating the soil, you should give the fertilizer cannula mixed with sand because the soil suitable for sweet potato plants is the soil mixed with sand. Sand mixed with compost and manure with a ratio of 1: 2: 2.
Sweet Potatoes Can Be Planted In Wetland Areas
Sweet potatoes can be grown on paddy fields. The trick is to leave the rice fields to be tight and not too wet. After that, the soil is plowed first so that the rice straw is buried and let the soil undergo the evaporation process, let it process for a week.
If the water content in the soil has been reduced and the soil is already tight, then do a hoof to destroy the clumped soil as it is plowed while clearing the remaining straw.
After the soil loose and loose, then do a second embankment with the aim of mixing between fertilizer and sand on the land, and at the same time make beds with the same size as in the field moor.
Sweet Potato Seeds
For seeds, you can use the tuber or the trunk. If the bulbs are used, then use a tennis ball.
However, if the rod is used then the stem should be 25-35 cm long pieces, with segments of about 5-6 segments. Leave 2 or 3 leaves on the top.
Tubers and stems to be seeded should be free of fungi, pests, and diseases. For planting should be done in March or April with harvest time around July or August.
