Since 2004, Friends of Burlington Gardens has introduced hundreds of area gardeners to the enjoyable experience of growing sweet potatoes in Vermont! Our plants are sold at just the right time for planting when the ground is warm and night temperatures are consistently above 50 degrees.

With the popularity of sweet potatoes increasing each year, and to accommodate more customers, we began a new partnership with Red Wagon Plants in 2009 and moved our annual sale to the RWP greenhouses in Hinesburg.

Thanks to the generosity of Julie Rubaud and staff, 100% of proceeds from the Sweet Potato Slip Sale supports our garden-based education and outreach programs.

Sweet potatoes are ideal for Champlain Valley gardeners with sandy, silty, or loam soil. Each slip can produce up to five pounds of delicious Beauregard B-14 sweet potatoes.

The sweet potato slips are shipped to Red Wagon Plants in late May from a grower in North Carolina. Our volunteers pot the slips to allow them to root in time for the sale on June 8 & 9 and be ready for planting in your garden or farm!
 
Each pot contains 3 rooted slips for $6! Gardener's half-dozen: Buy 6, get one free.
Bulk slips at quantity pricing are available by pre-order. Call 802-861-4769.

                                                                       Click the link for directions on planting, cultivating, and harvesting sweet potatoes.  

From Williston Road, travel south on Dorset Street past Shelburne Pond. Bear left on Shelburne Hinesburg Road, travel 1mile, and continue 0.6 miles on Shelburne Falls Rd. Red Wagon Plants will be on your left.

From Shelburne, take Falls Road east to Irish Hill Road, then turn right on Dorset Street. Bear left on Shelburne Hinesburg Road, travel 1mile, and continue 0.6 miles on Shelburne Falls Rd. Red Wagon Plants is on the left.

While you're at Red Wagon Plants be sure to allow time to check out the wide range of organically grown flowers, vegetables, and herbs hardened off and ready for transplanting. See you at the Sale!

Photo left: Community Teaching Garden volunteers with slips ready for the sale!