"Derald" wrote in message
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"Steve Peek" wrote:

I grow sweet potatoes here in WNC. Last year's giant was almost 9 pounds,
not large as sweet potatoes go, but a respectable one for the mountains.
Nine pounds seems respectable for anyplace, in my book. I quit trying to
grow sweet potatoes down here because they fall prey to too many boring
insects
and to earwigs. I guess if I started them early enough I might have some
chance
of getting a few before the onslaught. I know folks in GA, SC, and eastern
VA
that do well with sweet potatoes.
WNC? Where are you relative to, say Spruce Pine, Johnson City, Burnsville,
etc.?
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Derald
FL USDA zone 9a
http://www.onlineconversion.com/

Just a bit southwest, closer to Asheville actually.