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how can i tell when they are ready please
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As far as I know the only way to tell is to dig down and look but you'll need to dig them up soon as they can't take any frost what so ever, they just go to mush. Have a furtle about and see.
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Where can you buy sweet potatoes. I have looked in Dobies catalogue but can't find any.Comment
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not sure you can, you are not supopsed to be able to grown them here so they say, doesn't stop us all trying though, we have been making slips from shop boughts.Vive Le Revolution!!!'Lets just stick it in, and see what happens?'
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You can buy slips in the spring from the likes of T&M.
Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.
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yea i seen them in T and M too but heard on radio 4 that you can just cut up one from the supermarket, but to make shore its the orange flesh one, it was the gardners question time he siad to buy um in january
I am thinking about it for next year
do you grow them just like spuds?Some things in their natural state have the most VIVID colors
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I intend to try these next year, but am practising with them now, as we had some from the supermarket which started to sprout. I have let the sprouts grow to about 4 inches, then gently prised them off the tuber. I put the ends into some water. Roots are now sprouting and I'm going to pot them up and see how long I can get them to grow. Looking forward to trying them next summer. Lot cheaper than buying them from T&M's - can't believe the price they charge.
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Did some this year from slips from shop bought sweet potato. In January I scrubbed it first and then stood it in a pot with water at the bottom in a warm place. When it sprouted I took the shoots off and rooted them in water. Planted them in the open ground in June under black plastic and put a cloche over them. Had to take the cloche off in August as the leaves were getting scorched. Dug them up at the end of September and got several reasonable potatoes from them. I had kept the original potato as a pot plant 'cos the leaves were pretty and even that produced an eatable size one. I think they would have been better if they had had more water. Don't think I will try again as they take up a lot of room for not a big crop.Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poetComment
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