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"Dwayne" writes:
| How easy is it for you to get sweet potatoes? You might practice on them
| first and when you have done it successfully, try it on the yams. Sweet
| potatoes need a long growing season, which I dont have. However, I have
| learned that the big ones arent nearly as good tasting as the smaller ones.

Eh? Since the small, orange ones have replaced the large, whitish ones
in the UK, I have virtually stopped eating them! The former are sickly
sweet, with a slightly slimy texture, much like butternut squash. The
latter are less sweet and much more floury.

| I dig them in October before the first frost, and make the best of what I
| get. Both sizes last in the celler for a long time (I still have 18 that I
| grew last year, and this is the end of June).

Where is that? You would have a job doing that in the UK, because
they have 0-100 days growing season, depending on locality. It
isn't the frost that is the issue, but the coldness of the days.

We have trouble even with the hardier squashes, in many years.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.