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Hi

I want to grow sweet potatoes but have no idea where to start. Can anyone advise of the "How & When" of sweet potatoe growing

Many thanx

Saffer

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Good food ends with good talk - G.Neighor 1993

Really, sweet potatoes do best grown under cover or at the very least when any threat of frost has passed. They are tender. If you have last months GYO i think there's an article in there about growing them. I'll see if i can find a link for you.

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Detroitsburg - Where cool cars come

Found one at last......

Royal Horticultural Society - Gardening Advice: Growing Sweet Potatoes

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Iv'e got one growing. Scrubbed it well to remove any germinating inhibitor and the put it in water until I could see evidence of roots. When I could I put it in a pot of damp compost and now I have 4 or 5 tiny shoots appearing. As per the advice on other threads I will wait until they are 2 ins long and then cut them off and root them prior to planting out on June under a cloche.

Here's hoping

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Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

Thanx very much Whigger & Roitlet - will let you know how ! get on. The frost should be over at end April in this part of France so here's to a bumper crop.

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Good food ends with good talk - G.Neighor 1993

There was a thread on here about 3 days ago on this, not sure where it is but it involved putting the potato in a glass of water.

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