Growing Sweet Potato/Kumara

15 Jun 10 Michele -- Launceston (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
I found a sweet potato tuber with shoots about 2cm long in the vegetable storer in the cupboard. I want to know if it will keep for a couple of months so I can plant it out when the threat of frost has gone . I paln to plant tomatoes, capsicum, peas and chiilis at the same time..... mid October ish.
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03 Aug 11 gogeorgi@bigpond.com (Australia - tropical climate)
next time plant them in a very large pot, wine barrel etc and keep indoors by a sunny window till frost passes. just trim the shoots that over hang or trellis them
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09 Jul 10 CC (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
My brother grows sweet potato & they grew from shoots, which he planted in the ground.
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next time plant them in a very large pot, wine barrel etc and keep indoors by a sunny window till frost passes. just trim the shoots that over hang or trellis them
- gogeorgi@bigpond.com


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