Topic: Sweet Potato

[Tora]

Thanks Artichoke for the information on curing process. :) I haven't done anything like curing yet (they are in my kitchen) but they look fine so far. I'm going to cook them in the same way again and see if the flavour has changed at all. :P

[saddad]

As regards space Antipodes... they will climb, are related to Morning Glory...
I'm just back from Bordeaux, after a 800+ drive and will be having a look at mine tomorrow... from the big greenhouse!
Hope I have enough to need to cure them!
 ;D

[Suffolklad]

I'll be growing some in my polytunnel next year, so that I get a nice long season.
How early can I start trying to grow slips ?

[Suffolklad]

No idea anybody ?   :(

[manicscousers]

sorry, suffolklad, there was a whole thread on these, maybe search will come up with some ideas, we start ours off in january  ;D

[star]

I started mine off in early spring, put sweet potato tuber either into a glass of water supported by 3 coktail sticks, Like you would for an avacodo.

Or....place tuber in damp compost in a propagator. The slips will grow from dormant buds, when they are 4 or 5 ins long twist off and place in water to root.

After they've rooted pot up, grow on, harden off a bit, plant in polytunnel or g'house.

I used the compost method after the water one failed, and got all my slips off one tuber, the others rotted so keep an eye on them. They took a few weeks to show ;)

Hope this helps SL

[star]

oBVIOUSLY i DIDNT SEARCH FOR THE INFO......(CAPS LOCK AGAIN...BAH >:() But I should have known better. you'll find all the info you need on that thread SL ;)

[Suffolklad]

we start ours off in january  ;D

Thanks - is that for planting outdoors, or in a tunnel/greenhouse?

What I'm getting at is that I can probably plant mine out in the tunnel maybe as early as the end of March.

[star]

As long as they dont get cold....they dont like the cold.

I hope you have more success than I did. I guess you will as mine were outside ;)

[manicscousers]

we started ours out on the living room windowsill, the slips went into the poly end of april, protected by a bit of fleece if necessary, thing is, we didn't need the fleece this year, next may be different  ;D

[saddad]

Last year mine didn't get into the ground until July!!!! and I got a monster from where I had watered during that very Dry Month! this year got them in at the start of June and haven't dug them out yet!
 ::)