Japanese sweet potatoes (Slips) asian vegetable, smooth plant bulbs from October to

plant bulbs from October to December

black centers

which you can check periodically by pulling out a few nuts from the soil and shelling them

especially the first year that they are planted

Their most common use

Japanese sweet potatoes (Slips) asian vegetable, smooth plant bulbs from October toalso known as Japanese sweet potatoes or Japanese yams, Sweet potatoes, or Ipomoea batatas, originated in Central or South America and have been cultivated by humans for over 5000 years. Today, there are over 400 strains of sweet potato grown around the world. Different parts of the plant, such as the leaves, stems and root tubers, are used for food, medicine and animal feed Satsuma imo, or Japanese sweet potato, is a sweet, yellow fleshed strain.