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Can you grow sweet potatoes please?
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I live in Reading, Berkshire and have an allotment. Could I grow sweet potatoes please? To-day, I bought some sweet potatoes that has sprouted and after cutting them into small chunks have grown them. Let us see what would happen. In India, they flourish during the winter. Rajinder |
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Can you grow sweet potatoes please?
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Ch. Rajinder Nijjhar Jatt wrote: I live in Reading, Berkshire and have an allotment. Could I grow sweet potatoes please? To-day, I bought some sweet potatoes that has sprouted and after cutting them into small chunks have grown them. Let us see what would happen. In India, they flourish during the winter. No chance, I am afraid :-( Even with Global Warming (TM), the UK gets only a few months of hot, sunny weather - and then it is no more than a subtropical winter. We can't grow anything except short-season subtropicals, and sweet potatoes are long-season vegetables. I am sprouting a tip for amusement, and reports are that you can get a mediocre crop in a polytunnel, but they aren't really possible in the UK. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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Can you grow sweet potatoes please?
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from "Ch. Rajinder Nijjhar Jatt" contains these words: Hi, Hi, Rajinder, nice to see you're still around. I live in Reading, Berkshire and have an allotment. Could I grow sweet potatoes please? Yes. But don't expect a crop. To-day, I bought some sweet potatoes that has sprouted and after cutting them into small chunks have grown them. Let us see what would happen. It is probably a bit late in the year, but if this heatwave continues you might get a few very small tubers. Pray for an Indian Summer. G In India, they flourish during the winter. Yes, but you've been over here long enough to know that there's a difference.... -- Rusty http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm horrid·squeak snailything zetnet·co·uk excange d.p. with p to reply. |
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Can you grow sweet potatoes please?
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from "Ch. Rajinder Nijjhar Jatt" contains these words: Hi, Hi, Rajinder, nice to see you're still around. I live in Reading, Berkshire and have an allotment. Could I grow sweet potatoes please? Yes. But don't expect a crop. To-day, I bought some sweet potatoes that has sprouted and after cutting them into small chunks have grown them. Let us see what would happen. It is probably a bit late in the year, but if this heatwave continues you might get a few very small tubers. Pray for an Indian Summer. G In India, they flourish during the winter. Yes, but you've been over here long enough to know that there's a difference.... -- Rusty http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm horrid·squeak snailything zetnet·co·uk excange d.p. with p to reply. |
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Can you grow sweet potatoes please?
Rajinder wrote in message I live in Reading, Berkshire and have an allotment. Could I grow sweet potatoes please? To-day, I bought some sweet potatoes that has sprouted and after cutting them into small chunks have grown them. Let us see what would happen. In India, they flourish during the winter. I tried to grow some that are supposed to be able to tolerate the UK climate, these I bought from Marshalls the seed merchant last year. The season was too short and the frost killed the plants before they made tubers of any use. The ground dwelling slugs also had a feast on the roots so I considered them not a viable crop for me. They may well flourish during the winter in the Punjab, but not everywhere in India, doubt they would grow in the colder parts. The plants can't take any frost. -- Bob www.pooleygreengrowers.org.uk/ about an Allotment site in Runnymede fighting for it's existence. |
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Can you grow sweet potatoes please?
Rajinder wrote in message I live in Reading, Berkshire and have an allotment. Could I grow sweet potatoes please? To-day, I bought some sweet potatoes that has sprouted and after cutting them into small chunks have grown them. Let us see what would happen. In India, they flourish during the winter. I tried to grow some that are supposed to be able to tolerate the UK climate, these I bought from Marshalls the seed merchant last year. The season was too short and the frost killed the plants before they made tubers of any use. The ground dwelling slugs also had a feast on the roots so I considered them not a viable crop for me. They may well flourish during the winter in the Punjab, but not everywhere in India, doubt they would grow in the colder parts. The plants can't take any frost. -- On thinking about it I am wondering if you could pot up and keep your plants growing slowly during the winter in a cool frost free place, greenhouse or cool windowsill, and then plant them out end of May next year to get a very good start to the season. If we get another like this year it might just work especially if we don't get a frost until late. It's the length of the season that's the problem here. Regards -- Bob www.pooleygreengrowers.org.uk/ about an Allotment site in Runnymede fighting for it's existence. |
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Can you grow sweet potatoes please?
Good idea. I would try.
Rajinder "Bob Hobden" wrote in message ... Rajinder wrote in message I live in Reading, Berkshire and have an allotment. Could I grow sweet potatoes please? To-day, I bought some sweet potatoes that has sprouted and after cutting them into small chunks have grown them. Let us see what would happen. In India, they flourish during the winter. I tried to grow some that are supposed to be able to tolerate the UK climate, these I bought from Marshalls the seed merchant last year. The season was too short and the frost killed the plants before they made tubers of any use. The ground dwelling slugs also had a feast on the roots so I considered them not a viable crop for me. They may well flourish during the winter in the Punjab, but not everywhere in India, doubt they would grow in the colder parts. The plants can't take any frost. -- On thinking about it I am wondering if you could pot up and keep your plants growing slowly during the winter in a cool frost free place, greenhouse or cool windowsill, and then plant them out end of May next year to get a very good start to the season. If we get another like this year it might just work especially if we don't get a frost until late. It's the length of the season that's the problem here. Regards -- Bob www.pooleygreengrowers.org.uk/ about an Allotment site in Runnymede fighting for it's existence. |
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Can you grow sweet potatoes please?
"Ch. Rajinder Nijjhar Jatt" wrote in message
... Hi, I live in Reading, Berkshire and have an allotment. Could I grow sweet potatoes please? To-day, I bought some sweet potatoes that has sprouted and after cutting them into small chunks have grown them. Let us see what would happen. In India, they flourish during the winter. Rajinder I would have thought that given enough effort you could grow almost anything in this country, we can for instance grow bananas and pineapples etc so maybe you'd have to have a well insulated and heated greenhouse, and you might expect to have to wait more than one season for the actual returns but it should be possible. Duncan |
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