If you have a sweet potato that is going bad on one side but has a few sprouts and is still firm on the other, cut off the bad end, then continue on with the following steps.

If you have a sweet potato with a few little sprouts/leaves stick it in a cup and add water until it is ¼- ½ way up the side of the sweet potato. Make sure any leaves sprouting are on top of the potato and not in water.

If there aren’t any sprouts forming, I like to stick toothpicks in the side of the sweet potato so they rest on the edge of a cup or jar, then fill with water about ½ up the sweet potato.

Change water once a week and watch as roots begin to form. This can take 2-3 weeks. Once you have roots, plant in well-draining garden soil and water 2-3x a week.

Harvest sweet potatoes when the ends of the vine start to turn yellow or just before the first frost, this is typically around 100 days after planting.