Roots & tubers · warm season
Sweet potato
Ipomoea batatas
A southern crop that works in Ohio if you use short-season slips (Beauregard, Georgia Jet).
- When to plant in Ohio
- Set slips after soil is 65°F, usually late May to early June
- Harvest window
- September, before a hard frost
- Days to maturity
- 90–110 from slips
- Spacing
- 12–18 in. on ridges
- Light
- Full sun, heat
How to grow it
Buy or sprout slips. Plant on raised ridges with black mulch in the north. Do not flood. Dig before frost blackens the vines. Cure 10 days at 80–85°F, then store at 55–60°F—never refrigerate.
