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| About the Author Michelle13 nsw 3rd June 2010 11:35am #UserID: 3579 Posts: 3 View All Michelle13's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Brendan says... Just wondering if anyone else saw ABC Gardening last night, 31. 7. 10. (and repeated today at 1pm). That lady 'up north' was planting sweet potato, but she intended to grow them up a trellis? Now I'm not sure if she only wanted to harvest the leaves & tips of the sweet potato vine, but I don't think she was going to grow sweet potatoes, as they grow UNDER the ground, not up a trellis. The sweet potatoes I've grown would never work growing up a trellis, as the piece (or tip) of sweet potato that's planted, sprouts roots and usually rots away. As the vine grows along the ground, it sends down spikes or roots, and these grow into sweet potatoes. I just can't see that happening up a trellis. | About the Author Brendan Mackay, Q 1st August 2010 7:25am #UserID: 1947 Posts: 1722 View All Brendan's Edible Fruit Trees |
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HappyEarth says... Hey brendan, she was planting cuttings (stem) of the sweet potato not the tuber itself. Each stem will form a clump of sweet potatos to harvest down the track. Rich www.happyearth.com.au | About the Author HappyEarth1 Wollongong 1st August 2010 7:37am #UserID: 215 Posts: 94 View All HappyEarth1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Diana says... Hi Brendan, I did that with my sweet potatoes. It wasn't deliberate, the sweet potato bed was next to a trellis for a new grape, but the potatoes got there first. It worked well because the leaves feed the tubers- having a lot of leaves growing up a trellis meant that the part on the ground where the tubers were was extremely productive, completely full of potatoes. I have renovated this bed now, just leaving a small patch to regrow in summer. Diana.
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Charles cant spell says... As Diana says, for the running varieties this is a good idea, also yes you can eat the leaves/tips as a spinach substitute so growing it off the ground keeps it dirt/grit free. The plant will grow long roots and off those roots sweet potatoes. So there is no need to let it scramble along the ground and root along the way. You can do this but you are probable better planting multiple tips where you want the sweet potatoes to grow. The ground should be loose and mounded up a bit but not necessary. The common orange skinned/orange fleshed sweet potatoes (Beauregard ?) runs a lot so trellising/growing up is a good option for this one. The white skinned purple fleshed one (smaller and narrower tuber) is a nice clumping variety that has purple tips of new growth. The purple skinned white flesh one (dense tuber that tastes like chestnuts) is also pretty stable/clumping. | About the Author Charlesstillcantspell1 Perth Innaloo 1st August 2010 2:32pm #UserID: 2742 Posts: 411 View All Charlesstillcantspell1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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