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14-06-2012, 12:59 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:
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Jo wrote:
I was given a couple of sweet potato plants for my birthday. I've never
grown such plants before. Any advice (ie best soil, depth etc?)

They are tropical, they need to be kept warm. They are convulvulous (sp?)

The adjective describing the family is convolvulaceous; the genus is
Convolvulus. However sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) are in the morning
glory genus.

so you will doubtless get comments on your beautiful bindweed. :-)

And bindweeds can be either Calystegia or Convolvulus.

Kind of irrelevant. The significant thing is that it /looks/ like bindweed,
so people /will/ comment that you appear to be growing bindweed. Unless the
OP puts a big sign with the latin name on. :-P