Sweet Potato Taste Test - Page 3

ddsack · June 27, 2024

Very good information, thanks!
You are the Sweet Potato King here!

seaeagle · August 31, 2024

ddsack, I am not the king of sweet potatoes here by a long shot. There are 3 or 4 here who have grown many more sweet potato varieties than I have, they just don;t post anymore for whatever reason. But thanks

A new sweet potato has been released by LSU and it sounds like a winner

https://www.knoe.com/2024/07/02/new-...-spot-farmers/

https://journals.ashs.org/hortsci/vi...ticle-p796.xml

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7E-Bw29fDA

If you like watching sweet potato harvests videos by gardeners here is a daily link. It updates every day and it is about that time.

https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...IIAg%253D%253D

Gardeneer · 1 Week Ago

Hmm.where I am sp is 0ne of the crops farmers grow
But i have not tried it in the pas 8 yrs that I have
lived here. So I will try it this season. I will just buy
some from store and grow its I reckon the locally
grown var will do fibe. they are red and sweet.
Now I have learn how t9 grow them.

VirginiaClay · 1 Week Ago

I grew sweet potatoes last year for the first time and really enjoyed it. The whole process of starting the slips and watching them grow was a lot of fun. To grow my slips, I used a cheap pack of an unnamed orange variety from the racks at Home Depot, an unknown orange from Giant grocery store, and an unknown organic white from Wegmans. All of them produced nice slips, but the one from Giant took much longer to sprout -- maybe had been treated with something.

I ended up with probably 50+ slips from just two shoebox-sized containers, and each of those slips could have been cut up into multiples, so I easily could have planted my whole garden in sweet potatoes if I had wanted to. As it was, I planted about a dozen of them.

I had to cover the plants in a lean-to made of window screens because the deer really loved them. Unfortunately I planted the slips about a month too late, and in the shade of a row of tomato plants, so most of my harvest was basically "fingerlings." I did get a handful of full-size sweet potatoes, though, and digging them out was fun.

MrsJustice · 6 Days Ago

I still need to try "White Sweet Potatoes".

June 27, 2024	#31
ddsack Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Northern Minnesota - zone 3 Posts: 3,231	Very good information, thanks! You are the Sweet Potato King here! __________________ Dee **************

1 Week Ago	#33
Gardeneer Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: NC - zone 8a - heat zone 7 Posts: 4,931	Hmm.where I am sp is 0ne of the crops farmers grow But i have not tried it in the pas 8 yrs that I have lived here. So I will try it this season. I will just buy some from store and grow its I reckon the locally grown var will do fibe. they are red and sweet. Now I have learn how t9 grow them. __________________ Gardeneer Happy Gardening !

6 Days Ago	#35
MrsJustice Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Hampton, Virginia Posts: 1,523	I still need to try "White Sweet Potatoes". __________________ May God Bless you and my Garden, Amen https://www.angelfieldfarms.com MrsJustice as Farmer Joyce Beggs

August 31, 2024	#32
seaeagle Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: virginia Posts: 743	ddsack, I am not the king of sweet potatoes here by a long shot. There are 3 or 4 here who have grown many more sweet potato varieties than I have, they just don;t post anymore for whatever reason. But thanks A new sweet potato has been released by LSU and it sounds like a winner https://www.knoe.com/2024/07/02/new-...-spot-farmers/ https://journals.ashs.org/hortsci/vi...ticle-p796.xml https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7E-Bw29fDA If you like watching sweet potato harvests videos by gardeners here is a daily link. It updates every day and it is about that time. https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...IIAg%253D%253D

1 Week Ago	#34
VirginiaClay Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2019 Location: Virginia, USA Posts: 142	I grew sweet potatoes last year for the first time and really enjoyed it. The whole process of starting the slips and watching them grow was a lot of fun. To grow my slips, I used a cheap pack of an unnamed orange variety from the racks at Home Depot, an unknown orange from Giant grocery store, and an unknown organic white from Wegmans. All of them produced nice slips, but the one from Giant took much longer to sprout -- maybe had been treated with something. I ended up with probably 50+ slips from just two shoebox-sized containers, and each of those slips could have been cut up into multiples, so I easily could have planted my whole garden in sweet potatoes if I had wanted to. As it was, I planted about a dozen of them. I had to cover the plants in a lean-to made of window screens because the deer really loved them. Unfortunately I planted the slips about a month too late, and in the shade of a row of tomato plants, so most of my harvest was basically "fingerlings." I did get a handful of full-size sweet potatoes, though, and digging them out was fun.