On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:58:56 +0000, Rusty Hinge
wrote:

Bob Hobden wrote:


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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.

Quite agree, from our experience they will only produce a crop under
ideal UK conditions which are very warm long summers with a good
rainfall. In a normal year a waste of time other than it's an
interesting experience.

BTW the plants look like giant convolvulus and spread all over. If you
garden on an allotment site do warn any neighbouring gardeners or they
might think you are producing genetically modified bindweed to take over
the world. :-)

I red somewhere that the greenery was edible.

You're right. I heard that too.

Pam in Bristol