Beauregard Sweet Potato Slips

Beauregard Sweet Potato Slips are live, rooted shoots for establishing one of the most widely grown orange-fleshed sweet potato varieties. Beauregard forms dark red-orange skin around moist, sweet flesh and is valued for productive, blocky storage roots that suit baking, roasting, mashing, pies, and savory dishes. Under favorable heat and soil conditions, harvest commonly falls around 95–105 days after planting, but weather and transplant establishment can shift timing.

The variant shipping group identifies this item specifically as sweet potato slips, not seed potatoes, bare-root perennials, or potted plants. Plant promptly after arrival once frost danger has passed, nights are warm, and the soil has heated. Sweet potatoes are tender annual vegetables in most U.S. gardens, so winter hardiness zones are less useful than frost-free season length. Use the growing-zone guide with local frost dates and review the soil-temperature guide before planting into spring ground.

Choose full sun and loose, well-drained soil where roots can expand without compaction. Create low ridges or raised rows where drainage is slow. Set slips deeply enough to cover several nodes while leaving the growing tip above ground, firm the soil gently, and water immediately. Keep moisture steady during establishment, then adjust irrigation to soil type and rainfall. Avoid excessive nitrogen, which can favor vines over storage roots. Our detailed sweet potato planting and growing guide covers spacing, care, harvest, and curing.

Beauregard does not require chill hours or a pollinizer partner because gardeners harvest the underground storage roots rather than seed. Dig before cold weather damages the crop, handle the skin carefully, and condition freshly harvested roots in warm, humid, ventilated surroundings before cooler storage. Save sound roots for the kitchen rather than reclassifying these slips as ordinary potatoes; sweet potatoes are a different crop with distinct planting and storage needs.