Are potatoes and sweet potatoes compatible?

[TheWaterbug]

I have admitted defeat on my [url=https://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=250588#250588]pathetic attempt[/url] to grow slips from a store-bought sweet potato, so I went online and [url=https://www.sandhillpreservation.com/pages/sweetpotato_catalog.html]bought some slips[/url] that should be delivered sometime in May.

Since I was shopping I also bought some seed potatoes for [url=https://www.potatogarden.com/]"regular" (e.g. non-sweet) potatoes[/url] that should arrive next week.

I'm in the middle of double-digging a patch of garden for both.

I know they're _not_ botanically related to each other, but are sweets and regular potatoes compatible? Do they like the same type of soil, soil prep, watering schedule, fertilizer (or lack thereof), cultivation, movies, and music?

[mscratch]

Sweet potatoes require more of a light soil than reg. potatoes which will grow in even rocky soil..sweet potatoes do not require hilling as do reg. potatoes, sweet potatoes like heat and warmth so cannot be planted as early as reg. potatoes unless you want a later crop of reg. potatoes..sweet potatoes will vine out and over run the reg. potatoes unless they have a newer variety that remaines "bushier" for lack of a better word.. so I would not plant them together.

[TheWaterbug]

I would not plant them together.

Ahh. Thanks for the tips.

I suppose this means I need to double-dig another bed

[Ohio Tiller]

I have had good luck with them here mainly because we have a rather clay soil and they seem to like that. Down south with the red clay soil they grow wonderful. I always planted them at the other end of the garden from the regular potatoes but only because that's what my Grandpa did. I do mound them like he did and I always give them something to climb on to keep them off everything else. I don't grow allot of them mainly because I don't really like them and the wife will eat one every now and then. but I do like giving them to my Dad who like them allot. I will plant them at the same time I plant my tomatoes.