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A new greenhouse guide for growing sweet potato slips

To meet the increasing demand for sweet potatoes in Canada, Vineland Research and Innovation Centre has published best production practices to support the creation of a national slip propagation industry.

The new guide offers information on various aspects of production to grow high quality, high-yielding sweet potato slips in greenhouses.

Highlights include:

• Nomenclature system to describe the three generations of sweet potato seed stock
• Detailed step-by-step process to grow slips in greenhouse and field production of seed
• Several cost of production and revenue potential models using direct and fixed expenses

Download the pdf guide from Vineland here