Sweet Potatoe

Has any one grown these before?

And if so how was it for you .

 

never grown them scotkat ,but i love them
have you got seed?

 

Can they be grown from tubers?

 

@ daitheplant:

Do you mean that big oom-pah-pah trumpet type thing?

Are you the guy that invented growing jersey flukes from gold top milk? :D

 

ohmygod. I just achieved the giddy heights of 'Gardening Expert' on an awful joke. It's all your fault David. I shall consult my solicitor in the morning.

 

John, just take a tablet, and go and have a lie down in a darkened room. :D

 

Do Kathy dont have seed but buy them here and we had them baked in the States when we were over.

Would never have thought to bake them.

Kathy and Daitheplant I saw them in one of the garden mags you can buy the tubers.

 

You can buy the tubers in your local supermarket Scotkat. They call them 'Sweet potatoes.' :D

 

Scotkat, a couple of years ago one or more of the seed companies were selling what they called slips.
I think they were cuttings taken from a sprouted tuber.
I 've tried growing from supermarket tubers.
I put one in a propagator and allowed it to sprout, once the sprouts reach a few inched long you can cut them off, as in the humid atmosphere the shoots grow masses of roots just above the tuber.
They grow fast but need lots of heat, greenhouse conditions all summer.
Mine never came to much, just masses of small tubers.
The ones sold by the seed companies were reputed to be more tolerant of our climate, but I still wonder if our 3 month growing season is anywhere near long enough for them.

 

Hi, Scotkat.

I agree with pete that these are not something to be grown in the UK with great success. They are are tropical/sub tropical vegetable.

There is also a confusion between Yams and Sweet Potatoes which are different ... I think you'll find you ate Yams in Florida. I may be wrong, but having lived in Alabama for 14 years, it's what we had there and it just a hop, skip and a jump away ... next door actually!

You say you have never heard of them baked ... they are beautiful mashed with butter, milk and pepper and taste a little like mash with carrots. Another favourite Alabama way was "candied" sliced and cooked in brown sugar, sometimes with sliced onions!

PS Have corrected this to say sliced onions as I repeated brown sugar before.

 

Certain types of yam, I think, will grow reasonably well here in the UK.

dont they call them air potato LoL

 

LoL we were in Florida and menu did say baked sweet potatoe and not yam.

And we get seet potatoes in our local supermarket as well as yam.

But these were baked like abaked tattie or as we say here in Scotland jacket tatties.

We aslo have had them mashed here like mashed carrot and neap or carrot&(turnip)the two to gether very tasty.

Dont fancy with brown sugar be to sweet.

 

The Americans like their food sweet. If this is developing into a cooking topic (reminds me must post a recipe some time) can I just say that for someone whose grandfather was a Scot.... I hate bl**dy neaps. Mashed mud.

 

John try adding sweet chilli sauce to spice up your mashed neap and carrots.

 

Pete, I've never heard of an air potato ... I thought they all grew in the ground as all Yams, Sweet Potatoes, Inhames, etc, all have dirt on them!

Scotkat, this is a difficult "horticultural" debate. I am married to an American, Northern, but we met in the South. He says sweet potato but says he wouldn't know if it was a Yam from a Ying-Yang. :D