Orange-fleshed sweet potato recommendations - Page 2

rodger · February 5, 2009

I don't know about tobacco and I never heard of such a thing for seet potatoes but there is a federal code or statue that prohibits growing cotton even ornamental cotton in areas that are considered bowevil free. This law doesnt prohibit an individual from growing cotton. If an individual wants to grow cotton even comercial farmers they must file a form and pay a fee based on acreage or $40 for home gardeners. The fee registers you as a grower and pays for an extension agent to set up a monitor trap for the boweevil. People that are in violation could be fined and the government came destroy the crop as a means to prevent the reintroduction of the boweevil. I fill out this form each year for an interpretive garden I plant at a historic plantation in SC. Rodger

stormymater · February 6, 2009

Hmmm - need to be brining a soil sample of new beds to my ag extension office here in the near future - I'll ask about what "the ladies" at our Farmer's Supply told me. Our soil (loamy sand) & heat would be fab for sweet potatoes. DH is not jacked about me dragging home old tractor tires to grow them in - I tried to convince him it was the "new green" look but he remained unconvinced. I personally want to dig out 3 stands of awful pampas grass (pompous Grass) & think stacked tractor tires with cascading sweet potato vines would look ever so much better but that's just me...

Polar_Lace · February 6, 2009

You can see some lists at these 2 links:

State by State Noxious Weeds Lists

National Plant Board - Regulated Noxious Weeds

~* Robin

February 6, 2009	#18
Polar_Lace Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Z8b, Texas Posts: 657	You can see some lists at these 2 links: State by State Noxious Weeds Lists National Plant Board - Regulated Noxious Weeds ~* Robin __________________ It's not how many seeds you sow. Nor how many plants you transplant. It's about how many of them can survive your treatment of them.

February 5, 2009	#16
rodger Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Little Mountain SC Posts: 105	I don't know about tobacco and I never heard of such a thing for seet potatoes but there is a federal code or statue that prohibits growing cotton even ornamental cotton in areas that are considered bowevil free. This law doesnt prohibit an individual from growing cotton. If an individual wants to grow cotton even comercial farmers they must file a form and pay a fee based on acreage or $40 for home gardeners. The fee registers you as a grower and pays for an extension agent to set up a monitor trap for the boweevil. People that are in violation could be fined and the government came destroy the crop as a means to prevent the reintroduction of the boweevil. I fill out this form each year for an interpretive garden I plant at a historic plantation in SC. Rodger

February 6, 2009	#17
stormymater Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Pleasure Island, NC 8a Posts: 1,162	Hmmm - need to be brining a soil sample of new beds to my ag extension office here in the near future - I'll ask about what "the ladies" at our Farmer's Supply told me. Our soil (loamy sand) & heat would be fab for sweet potatoes. DH is not jacked about me dragging home old tractor tires to grow them in - I tried to convince him it was the "new green" look but he remained unconvinced. I personally want to dig out 3 stands of awful pampas grass (pompous Grass) & think stacked tractor tires with cascading sweet potato vines would look ever so much better but that's just me...