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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Veg Plot 1B on December 12, 2018, 08:37

Title: Sweet Potatoes
Post by: Veg Plot 1B on December 12, 2018, 08:37

Looking to buy sweet potatoes and research says they have to be brought as slips.

Have also come across them as seeds.

Can the be grown from seeds in UK?

Finding postage at £5 to much, anybody know if garden centres sell them?

Title: Re: Sweet Potatoes
Post by: JayG on December 12, 2018, 08:50

Easy to grow your own slips from a supermarket sweet potato tuber - there have been several lengthy threads on the subject over the years if you do a search for them; this is one of the shorter ones:  ::)

sweet potato slips in Grow Your Own - Page 1 of 1 (http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=119728.msg1408221#msg1408221)

Title: Re: Sweet Potatoes
Post by: Veg Plot 1B on December 12, 2018, 08:55

Thanks JayG.

I have a couple left in larder so will give it a try.

Have read that shop brought ones are treated so may not grow, any thoughts?

Title: Re: Sweet Potatoes
Post by: jambop on December 12, 2018, 09:00

Follow these guidelines and you cannot go wrong... mind you that's a mess of sweet potatoes

The Sweet Truth about Sweet Potato Production in Louisiana - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGFo3bZj_SM)

Title: Re: Sweet Potatoes
Post by: mumofstig on December 12, 2018, 09:11

Instructions and more videos in an old 'how to grow sweet potatoes' thread here
Sweet Potato Time - 2013 in Grow Your Own - Page 1 of 17 (http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=101119.msg1125236#msg1125236)

Title: Re: Sweet Potatoes
Post by: JayG on December 12, 2018, 09:55

Quote from: Veg Plot 1B on December 12, 2018, 08:55

Have read that shop brought ones are treated so may not grow, any thoughts?

I soaked mine in a bucket of water overnight before propping it up in its water container - don't know whether that helped because I don't know whether the tuber had been treated in the first place...  :unsure:

Edit: just noticed you mentioned that you've got a couple in your larder - unless you just want to practise growing slips (which might work now) it's way too early to start them now as they can't be planted outside or even in a greenhouse until it warms up considerably.

Title: Re: Sweet Potatoes
Post by: Veg Plot 1B on December 12, 2018, 16:20

Ok I'll eat these and get new ones next year.