"Marge" wrote in message after...
"Nick wrote in message after Rajinder wrote...

I planted some sprouting sweet potatoes and some have produced leaves.
There are about ten plants and would like advise how to protect them
during
the winter.

I have done that with one, and shall be trying to overwinter it indoors.


Have either of you actually got a crop of sweet potatoes? Thompson &
Morgan
sell slips that I fancy giving a try. But, I don't have any garden space
so
I wondered if sweet potatoes could be grown in those potato barrels, or
exhibitors growing sacks (whatever they are)?


I planted a row of those last year on our allotment, unfortunately they
arrived a month or so too late from Marshalls but by the end of the summer
they had made tiny but unusable tubers which were riddled with slugs. I
reckon another couple of months of warm weather would be needed for a good
crop.
The plants themselves were rather nice, shiny dark green leaves low growing
and spreading, and would not look out of place in a conservatory so
planting some in pots now and growing them overwinter to be put outside in a
very sunny spot come next June might be the way to go to get the length of
season needed. Worth a try.

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