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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: manicscousers on July 05, 2008, 18:43:15

Title: sweet potatoes, home grown vs bought
Post by: manicscousers on July 05, 2008, 18:43:15
hope the others catch up  ;D
Title: Re: sweet potatoes, home grown vs bought
Post by: amphibian on July 05, 2008, 22:23:14
Being a relative of bindweed you'd think they'd cover your whole plot in a few hours.
Title: Re: sweet potatoes, home grown vs bought
Post by: saddad on July 05, 2008, 23:50:26
I use bought slips as you know, beauregard... coming on nicely now... come down and see them sometime... ( to paraphrase a well known saying!!)
;D
Title: Re: sweet potatoes, home grown vs bought
Post by: manicscousers on July 06, 2008, 09:03:30
leave 'em in the ground 'til your open day, saddad, we'll see them then  ;D
Title: Re: sweet potatoes, home grown vs bought
Post by: saddad on July 06, 2008, 10:09:53
They won't be going anywhere until October at the earliest!  ;D
Title: Re: sweet potatoes, home grown vs bought
Post by: manicscousers on July 06, 2008, 15:02:33
one of them has a flower coming on, do I leave it on or does it take away from the tubers ?
Title: Re: sweet potatoes, home grown vs bought
Post by: saddad on July 06, 2008, 21:37:51
I'd leave it just to get a photo... they are related to Morning Glory...
:)
Title: Re: sweet potatoes, home grown vs bought
Post by: amphibian on July 06, 2008, 22:11:45
Quote from: manicscousers on July 06, 2008, 15:02:33
one of them has a flower coming on, do I leave it on or does it take away from the tubers ?

Pretty sure they let them flower in commercial cultivation. Flowering is rare in such temperate climates.
Title: Re: sweet potatoes, home grown vs bought
Post by: manicscousers on July 06, 2008, 22:19:28
you can just see the bud, I think  :)
Title: Re: sweet potatoes, home grown vs bought
Post by: manicscousers on July 12, 2008, 16:14:14
that one died when I wasn't there, here's another on the same plant  ;D
pretty, in't it ?