2009 Sweet Potato Catalog
Updated June 21, 2009
SWEET POTATO SLIP AVAILABILITY
NOTE - There will not be any Okinawan sweet potato slips available for 2009.
We have been blessed with nearly twice as many sweet potato orders this year as we had for last year. We are very happy that so many people are wanting to try to grow their own sweet potatoes. It is very difficult to predict (as orders are coming in during the early Spring) exactly how many slips are going to be produced and how many orders that we will be able to fill during the month of June. We needed to place the following limitations on our sweet potato orders for 2009.
1. Anyone who has already sent in an order during late March, early April, May, or June will not be receiving a sweet potato confirmation letter (unless it came in together with a seed order). Linda has an alphabetical index of all sweet potato orders we have received through the end of May. If you want to confirm that we have received your order in our office, you may call the office to have her check to make sure that we have gotten it. We will try to fill as many of these orders as we possibly can by the end of June. If we can not fill your order, we will send you a refund (or will return your original check if your order was received April 6 or after). We will not be sending out the refunds until after the end of June when we know for certain that we will not be able to fill the order. If you have ordered an assortment (even if you have ordered late in the season) you will probably get your slips by the end of June. If you have ordered a specific variety, we will try our best to get them to you but there are no guarantees. Most varieties are sprouting well right now, but a few are very heavily booked up and we must wait for them to resprout to fill all of the orders.
2. As of June 21, 2009, we will not be accepting any more orders for any sweet potatoes for the remainder of 2009.
3. As of June 1, 2009, we started shipping out sweet potato slips. We started with order number 1 and will proceed through the orders in the order in which they arrived in our office. This start of shipping is about one week later than we had hoped to start shipping due to the cool weather we have had in May. We will be shipping out slips on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (also on Tuesday if we have sprouts to ship). They will all be coming in a Priority Mail USPS shipping box. Please be aware that the soil temperature (not air temperature) needs to be between 70 and 80 deg. F before you set out your sweet potato slips. If you set them out in soil cooler than that, they will just sit in the ground and wait for the soil to warm up. Planting sweet potato slips in warm soil, will allow them to take off right away.
4. This is an update on sweet potato shipping as of June 21, 2009. We continue to ship out sweet potato slips at least three or four days a week. Most varieties of sweet potatoes are sprouting very well. We pull the slips for each shipment and then must wait for the potatoes to resprout before sending out any more of that variety for the next shipment. When we have heat and sunshine there could be sprouts again the very next day. When we have clouds and rain it takes longer for them to resprout. We will continue shipping out orders every day (except Thursday) as long as we have slips to ship out. They will be coming in a Priority Mail USPS shipping box. If your confirmation number is less than 500 and you haven't received your order yet, it probably means that one or more of the varieties you have requested is one of the slower sprouting varieties. The slow sprouting varieties are Purple, Maryland 810, Hernandez, Violetta, Korean Purple, etc. It takes temperatures in the 80's before some of these start to sprout. We did not start getting those kinds of temperatures until around June 17.
IMPORTANT NOTICE!
We have been notified that the Covington Sweet Potato is a patented variety and we are not able to sell this variety without paying the University of North Carolina for the privilege to do so. We will be pulling this variety from our offerings and it will not be available from us. If you would like to find slips for this variety, you may contact the University of North Carolina and they will put you in touch with someone who is offering slips.
Sweet Potato Slips
Please Note: Many people have been asking about what a "slip" is. A slip is a single plant (with small roots) that is sprouted on the sweet potato root and then slipped off so that you may plant it in the garden to grow a sweet potato plant. We ship out only slips (plants), but do not ship out sweet potato roots.
2008 REFUNDS: All refund checks have been mailed out for the 2008 orders which were not able to be shipped. If you did not receive your ordered sweet potato slips and have not received a refund check, please contact us either by sending an e-mail or by calling.
The sweet potato pricing and availability for 2009 is currently updated on the website. We have now uploaded the 2009 sweet potato order form onto the website.
2009 Sweet Potato Order Form
You must scroll to the bottom of this page and click on the link that says "Go to catalog of sweet potato varieties". When you get to that page, you will see the link to the Sweet Potato Order Form.
Season Closeout Sweet Potato Sale
All sweet potato slip assortments are offered at a 50% discount when shipped from June 26 through July 15, 2009. If you are willing to wait that late for your sweet potatoes and are willing to take "Pot Luck" on the varieties which you receive, you may order them at this discount. Please indicate on the sweet potato order form that you are ordering the "Season Closeout Special". You may choose which assortment that you would prefer. We will try to honor that choice if at all possible. this is for assortments only. No individual varieties may be requested at this price. You still need to include the total cost of shipping when placing an order for this special. That shipping charges are listed below and are based on the total number of slips you order.
Organic Certification
We have achieved Organic Certification for our sweet potato plants. Our sweet potato plants are started in the field and are grown on soil that receives no chemical treatments. The plants also are not sprayed for insects or disease and are grown organically.
POSTAGE CHARGES
1 through 25 slips = $5.25
26 through 100 slips = $6.50
101 through 200 slips = $7.50
201 slips and over = $10.00
Shipping and Handling
Canadian orders: We can not ship bulblets, plants or roots to a Canadian address.
International orders: We can not ship bulblets, plants or roots to addresses outside the United States.
Sweet Potato Shipping To California: According to the California Department of Agriculture website, we are allowed to ship sweet potato slips from Iowa to California.
Sales Tax
For Iowa residents only: You must also pay 7% sales tax on sweet potato orders shipped to Iowa addresses. (See order form for where to add this in.)
Go to catalog of sweet potato varieties.