Sweet Potato
Ipomoea batatas
How to sow sweet potato: Slips
Sun requirement for sweet potato: Plant in Full Sun
Sweet Potato has been planted 13 times by Growstuff members.
The sweet potato is a large, starchy, tuberous root. The tuber is long and tapered and has yellow, orange, red, brown, purple, or beige skin. It's flesh can be white, red, pink, violet, yellow, orange, or purple. Sweet potato cultivars with white or pale yellow flesh are not as sweet and moist as those with red, pink or orange flesh. The heart-shaped leaves and vines are sometimes eaten as greens when the plants are young, but eating the leaves interferes with the growth of the tuber underground. The sweet potato is not related to the potato or the yam.

Predictions
Annual
living and reproducing in a single year or lessMedian lifespan
24 weeksHeight
25cmSpread
100cmRow Spacing
35cmCompanions
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What people are saying about sweet potatoes
Getting ready for spring!
by maco,
I've got seeds either on-hand or ordered for just about everything I'm starting from seed this year. I've been working out what I want to plant, and this is the plan I've come up with for the 72 square feet of my backyard raised beds: s, 3 [green bean](crop)s, 2 tongue-of-fire beans, an ornamental [sweet potato](crop), and an [artichoke](crop). I...
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Garden trouble!
by oakandsage,
Something's skeletonizing my [carrot](crop)s and [dill](crop). It did a number on the sweet basil I planted, and is taking out the kale plants one by one. I haven't caught it in the act yet, though I've seen a couple big fat grasshoppers around; they're pretty likely culprits. My [blueberry](...
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Grown for: root (1)
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maco harvested 43, weighing 5.41 kg.
almost 9 years ago.
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