Sweet Potatoes

[Tony]

We've just planted our first Sweet Potato, anyone got any advice?

We've bene told they go mad so we've got it in a pot at the moment so that it doesn't end up climbing through and over everything else Anyone else grow them?

 

[Corso]

would be interested too

what sort of crop will you get from a single plant?

 

[santaman2000]

I've never grown sweet potatoes myself but this article from The Old Farmer's Almanac might be helpful www.almanac.com/plant/sweet-potato

 

[Tony]

Thanks for that, good link

Need to BR to jump in, he'll know all about them

 

[Monikieman]

I got as far as 90 days before the last frost (end of May) and then 90 days somewhere warm!!! That would need to be my living room for the rest of summer......in Scotland. Ah well.

 

[santaman2000]

I got as far as 90 days before the last frost (end of May) and then 90 days somewhere warm!!! That would need to be my living room for the rest of summer......in Scotland. Ah well.

yeah that sounds insurmountable but they do grow them in South America also (meaning in the Andes region) so there must be a way.

 

[Robson Valley]

Common names are so arbitrary that they may be regional preferences.

Sweet Potato is Ipomoea batatas. Yams are a group of Dioscorea species. Not closely related to eachother at all.
I've been reading that the common names are sometimes used interchangably.
Which is the one in this thread?