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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: ACE on December 08, 2021, 07:30:18
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After years of hoping a sweet potato would sprout I have a whole veg rack all sprouting away. Trouble is it is the middle of december. I have never grown them. So what do you reckon about potting them on the window sill and see if they survive through to planting time. I have a heat mat but I do not want to encourage too much growth. Or should I just throw the shoots in a wok and eat them.
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Whoops, should have gone to spec savers, they are red tubular shaped baking potatoes. Can somebody move this down to the cracker jokes.
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LOL!
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Lol ! Lol ! Lol ! :wave:
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I am sure that your potatoes will do well.
I managed to get some sweet potatoes to sprout about three years ago by giving them a good scrub and suspending them in some water. I think they spray them with something to prevent them sprouting.
I kept them under plastic all summer, they had every possible TLC. There were huge amounts of lovely leaves, I regretted in the end not eating those. And a lot of very beautiful flowers So I had high hopes of a good harvest but ended up with a few very meagre roots the size of my thumb which had very little flesh inside. I have gone back to buying them.
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They grow really well here and the slips cost maybe 20p each - we just bought a bundle for a couple of euros and there were loads of them, too many to plant. Despite a difficult season they got away and I had over 25 kilos come October. Going to do more varieties this year
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I assume that things are rather warmer and sunnier with your now in Portugal.