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janeyk:
Anybody tried to grow sweet potatoes out there ? I have 15 plants in a cloche that are currently just a mass of vine-like leaves. When do I harvest them ? Do I wait for a flower ?  Any other advice ?

???

Many thanks.

Janeyk

Admin Dan:
Where about in the country are you ?

We were thinking of sweet potatoes, but didn't think we would have much luck in this country.

We are in Liverpool.

janeyk:
I'm in Central Lancs. so not far from you. The variety I have tried are Beauregarde and I got them from Marshalls. So far so good thanks to the cloche and the slugs have only eaten a tiny bit of the leaves !

OP:
These are the only references I found that seemed to be any use:

www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/gqt/fsheets/0.../fsheetsq3.shtml
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/gqt/fsheets/2.../fsheetsq7.shtml

Shazza:
There was considerable discussion about growing sweet potatoes on the kitchengarden.co.uk web site forum last year. If you do a search for "sweet potatoes" at http://www.kitchengarden.co.uk/forum/search.asp
you should bring up all the postings. ;D

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