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Old 08-01-2010, 03:29 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default sweet potato slips

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MW wrote:

Just cooking a sweet potato, pepper and sweetcorn soup with
shop-bought ingredients, so hopefully can be making a fully homegrown
version next year.


Don't bet on it.

What do you reckon about planting out time? Same as maincrop spuds?


They grow well in the UK only when planted under a blue moon.

More seriously, no. Do that and they will die. They MUST have warm
soil.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.