How we’re planting organic sweet potatoes in our backyard garden Step 1: We tarp the bed with a Silage Tarp for about a month to knock back weeds. Step 2: We feed the soil with our organic Feather Meal, a slow-release nitrogen source, and loosen the bed with the Brute Broadfork to prep for transplanting Step 3: After a week of irrigation, we flame-weed the next wave of emerging weeds. Not burning-just wilting them like spinach in a hot pan. Since we haven’t tilled, new weeds are less likely come