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Sweet potato is a nutrient-packed crop that is so versatile and quite easy to cultivate even if you are a backyard farmer or someone trying to experiment in containers, a plant with so much vibrant green coloured and tubers that vary in size depending on how well the plant had been cultivated and the nature of the conditions that was provided to the plant.

Potatoes don't require much time making it easy to cultivate them more times in a year than we would cultivate many other crops.

Planting is done using the small branch from the plant which will naturally regenerate once we plant it into the ground similar to the way we plant cassava another tuber but quite different from the way yam is planted which requires using tubers from the previous harvest.

In small spaces, the vines move vertically to occupy the designated area if provided but when you don't make provisions for designated areas in the garden then the vine takes over the whole garden affecting other crops in the process.

You can also trim the vines that go past the designated area and plant these vines in other fields where they germinate and also fill up that space.

The soil has to be loose and aerated to allow the tuber under the ground to expand without any restriction and in ninety to a hundred days the leaves would have started turning yellow showing a sign that the tuber is ready for harvest.

Sweet potatoes are called sweet for the reason that the tubers are naturally sweet right from harvest so you can now enjoy your tuber by cooking it alone or mixed with beans, rice or any other cooking components.

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