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    Morning all,

    Was just wondering what should I do after I have potted up my sweet potatoes?

    Should I put them in a larger container for the rest of their lives or in a raised bed/in the ground?

    How can I get the most from them?

    Many thanks,

    Samuel

  • #2
    Sweet potatoes, like to ramble, like a vine Samuel, so need some space, I'd put them in the ground. I tried a couple last year, but put them in much too late, so only got very small crop, hope yours do well.
    DottyR

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    • #3
      When I grew them I trained the vines up some strings, in the polytunnel. We got a really good crop which was very sweet.

      But after all the trouble of getting the tubers to produce shoots, and then potting them on, I do wonder if they taste any better than a nice parsnip which is so easy to grow anyway!

      But if we didn't try all these unusual things, we wouldn't be proper gardeners!

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      • #4
        They also need warmth so are much better under cover

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        • #5
          I found that they ramble and take up a large space, however the sweet potatoes are made directly beneath the main plant (if that makes sense) .... i.e. no potatoes are produced from the rambling bits

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          • #6
            I grew them for a couple of years, both outdoors in the ground and in the greenhouse in large pots. The outdoor ones produced a few pink worms. The greenhouse ones gave me a few decent sized ones. Having said that you are "down South" so you'll probably get a better summer.

            I don't grow them anymore. I give the space over to melons.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by dim View Post
              I found that they ramble and take up a large space, however the sweet potatoes are made directly beneath the main plant (if that makes sense) .... i.e. no potatoes are produced from the rambling bits
              I was lead to believe that if you let the vines ramble on the soil, roots will grow directly below the leaves to give a larger crop.
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              • #8
                Have a read of this Samuel http://www.sowingnewseeds.org.uk/pdf...20Potatoes.pdf
                As BM says, where the vines touch the ground, tubers will grow, so give them some space if you want to make the most of them..

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                • #9
                  Also trying them this year for the first proper time. I may plant in the greenhouse then, as hopefully we will get a second greenhouse shortly!
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
                    Have a read of this Samuel http://www.sowingnewseeds.org.uk/pdf...20Potatoes.pdf
                    As BM says, where the vines touch the ground, tubers will grow, so give them some space if you want to make the most of them..
                    I found that there were no sweet potatoes beneath the rambling vines and the only potatoes were directly beneath the main stem

                    but saying that, I planted the suttons grafted variety, so perhaps that was the reason ... they take a lot of space for the yield

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                    • #11
                      I've never grown them, Dim, so can't speak from experience, just what was in the Sowing New seeds link.

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                      • #12
                        Have just planted out 2 Sweet Potatoes in the kite, I was saving them for slips but this thread made me plant them so it's all your faults...............
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