I dug out some of my kumara (sweet potatos) today. One massive tuber is 30
cm long and 45 cm round. The kumara must like the soil.

rob

What kind of soil you got? What you feeding them?

PDM

"George.com" wrote in message
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I dug out some of my kumara (sweet potatos) today. One massive tuber is 30
cm long and 45 cm round. The kumara must like the soil.

rob

"PDM" pdcm99minus this wrote in message
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What kind of soil you got? What you feeding them?

PDM

"George.com" wrote in message
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I dug out some of my kumara (sweet potatos) today. One massive tuber is 30
cm long and 45 cm round. The kumara must like the soil.

rob

its a raised garden a couple years old. It had a mixture of loamy soil,
mushroom compost & organic matters such as grass clippings & old hay mixed
up plus vegetable matter like mustard all mixed together. Full of organic
matter. A few months ago it had a top dressing of compost and horse poop. We
have had a very dry summer, very dry. 4 1/2 months with FA rain and I have
not watered the kumara much. I have put a trickle hose across the patch a
few times.

rob

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Sounds like it's very good soil; so no wonder you got such good results. I
guess that all the organic matter kept the soil from drying out. Wonder how
big if you had watered?

PDM

I have some sweet potatoes in 8" pots which I grew from my own cuttings. Will they over winter to produce potatoes next year

Terry