[A YM]

Just had a lovely roasted dinner with beetroots, chicken and sweet potatoes. The flavour was incredible. Wonder if there are good varieties to grow, and

is it worthwhile? What is the yield like please?

[mumofstig]

This fairly recent thread may answer your question..
https://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=133703.msg1543477#msg1543477

[A YM]

I am still very new here and I wonder where and how I can register a like notification. Thank you for the advice. As I live in East London, I think I might be able to find the heat and warmth and sunshine. I can grow them at home instead of in the allotment, talking of which, I have been to for 2 months.

[Subversive_plot]

I live in the climate for them (long growing season, hot weather) but don't have the best soil.

I have seen them growing in farm-scale agriculture in the coastal plain of state of North Carolina. The soil where they did well was sandy loam, good tilth, with lots of organic matter, and good water-holding capacity (but not water-logged).

I have heard of people growing them in bushel-sized containers, but you still need a sufficiently long growing season to do well. If there are varieties that are adapted to short growing season in your climate, try those, possibly growing them in containers that start out in a polytunnel or something similar, maybe extending the growing season by moving back into a polytunnel at the end of the growing season.

For general cultivation information, try this link: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.walterreeves.com/food-gardening/sweet-potato/&ved=2ahUKEwios7OW1tbuAhUGmuAKHRJSDVkQFnoECAMQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3tbjWk8ZBECyFDGUaimlQQ

[8doubles]

I am still very new here and I wonder where and how I can register a like notification. Thank you for the advice. As I live in East London, I think I might be able to find the heat and warmth and sunshine. I can grow them at home instead of in the allotment, talking of which, I have been to for 2 months.

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[al78]

I have grown them once (on the local community allotment) in a greenhouse. They were planted along one side of the greenhouse and there was enough in total for a couple of weeks at my normal level of consumption. You really need a greenhouse or polytunnel and a summer that is not awful, so it is a gamble when you buy the slips as to what the upcoming spring and summer will be like. Personally I wouldn't try growing them this year because February is turning out to be colder than average, and there is a correlation between cold late winters and colder than average springs, so maybe more likely than normal to get sub-optimal growing conditions this year, at least in the early part of the growing season.

[The Persistent Novice]

Tried them last year, without great success, will not repeat the experiment this year.