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Sweet potatoes
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 5:19 pm
by bighughie
Has anybody tried to grow these and if so did you get a result Ours were very small it nay have been the lack of sun
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 5:44 pm
by Bren
I was going to try them a couple of years back,I have 2 West Indian chaps on an allotment close by so I asked them if they would grow and they said I would be wasting my time.
Bren
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 6:29 pm
by Chantal
I've tried three times. The first time I had reasonable results, but the last two attempts were pathetic. One of the pathetic years was 2006 and there was a heatwave.
Even on the good year, it really wasn't worth it.
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008 2:08 pm
by JacquieB
I have grown these before and although they have not cropped fantastically, they have provided a return and the huge amount of foliage produced has given my greenhouse a jungly feel and provided some shade for other planting!
So I took advantage of the offer in KG earlier this year. Many of the slips didn't take on planting - they looked so sad on arrival, i wasn't really surprised. However the crop has been very poor (dug up at the weekend as the frost has finally got to the plants foliage) - lots of potatoes but some not much thicker than a shoe lace.. Also these varieties didn't put much foliage on - one variety was quite bushy foliage - no more that 12", the other did get to 2-3' but was no comparison to the 10-15' that plants have put on in prior years. So a bit of a disappointment really.
I wish I knew what variety I've grown in the past to be able to grow them again - always the problem of buying plants in the market.... (although they were correctly labelled as sweet potatoes...)