Permaculture Edibles 4 Flashcards
Carrots, potatoes, sweet potatoes part of _ layer in food forest
Root layer
3 other root layers
Garlic
Onion
Shallots
Potatoes are _ plants
Perennial
Potatoes originated in
South America
Potatoes often grown as
Annuals
Furrow def
Long narrow trench
Potatoes typically grown in
Furrows, amended with plenty of compost and well rotted manure
As potatoes grow, you must
Keep developing tubers covered with soil or mulch
Carrots need _ soil
Light, crumbly
Carrots need fixed, not fresh compost because
Otherwise they will fork
Carrots also need
Plenty of compost
Sweet potatoes need (2)
Sandy soil
Plenty of sun
Sweet potatoes also need
Plenty of room
Moisture and nutrient amount for sweet potatoes
It too much, not too little
Grow leaves but not tubers on sweet potatoes if
You use excessive manure/nitrogen rich materials
Sweet potatoes grow from
Cuttings or slips
Sweet potatoes need _ soil
Well drained
If you don’t have well drained soil for sweet potatoes
Plant on Mound or ridge of soil
Slip def
Rooted sprout from mature sweet potato
Give sweet potatoes plenty of _ until plants spread out
Straw mulch
Straw mulch helps
Keep down weeds
The leaves of sweet potatoes are
Edible but must be cooked
Sweet potato tubers take _ to mature
3-4 months
Harvest sweet potatoes before
Frost
Cure picked sweet potatoes in sun for a day or 2 to
Enhance flavor
After curing sweet potatoes in sun
Keep in warm and humid place for up to two weeks
