Topic: sweet potatoes (again)!!!

[bedrockdave]

hi folks,
   can anyone tell me how to find the thread on sweet pots .Thought I'd bookmarked it but mustn't have done it right. I work in the s/mkt where " every little helps "so thought you might be able to do the same,thought I may buy a couple soon  and take some  " slips"  and try them
  .Also am I right in thinking that they climb like beans but  the tubers grow in  deep soil ???

[manicscousers]

hiya, dave..have you tried the search at the top, our sweet pots are in half, in their glasses of water, covered with a cut off 2 pint bottle on the windowsill, one has roots, the other has slips starting..
and yes, you can grow them up, and the tubers grow underneath the soil at the base.. ;D

[Deb P]

Saddad is the expert on sweet potatoes, try this link for some photos and general advice....

http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,25657.0.html

[saddad]

Well thanks for those few kind words Deb... but hardly... I buy in mine as slips from the dreaded T+M    (ouch at the expense!)
 ;D

[bedrockdave]

thanks saddad & Deb, sorted!!!

[miniroots]

This is a good link too..

Mine have just developed some little purpley lumps!

[the_snail]

Done a little googling and found this web site about sweet potatoes in the UK.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/gqt/fsheets/02_09_01/fsheetsq3.shtml

Hope it helps :)

The_Snail