Description
Supplied: Two rooted cuttings.
Description:
Purple sweet potatoes grow on sprawling vines with large, lobed, purple – tinged leaves. Vines are vigorous and will climb anything they touch and send down roots wherever they find soil. Can be grown in containers as long as the vines have a structure to climb, or can take over an entire veggie patch and provide you with kilograms of nutritious food. Sweet potato leaves are edible, with a taste similar to spinach. The tubers have a purple skin and deep purple flesh which can be cooked in the same ways as the more common orange sweet potato. They tend to be drier and firmer than the orange varieties.
Planting instructions:
Plant runners in a trench so that as much of the stem is covered with soil as possible, with leaves above the soil level. This will facilitate the development of extra roots.
Water daily for the first two weeks, after which water during dry periods. Tubers are most commonly harvested in Autumn. If grown in an area with ‘hard frosts’, some tubers should be reserved over Winter from which to grow new plants the following Spring, however the plants do not die off over Winter in areas with only light frosts.
