Sweet potatoes: what types you growin?

[snarfing]

I haven't tried the Japanese ones, but my Japanese friend also prefers the Korean ones. The most common Korean variety sold in the US are bam goguma (meaning chestnut sweet potato). Sweet, nutty and of course taste a bit like roasted chestnuts. Bake at 400 for a little over 1 hr and the caramelization on them is amazing. I have a case of sweet potatoes and plan on growing the slips in some soil in a container as the water method tends to take much longer.

Started mine up! Ended up doing the korean (which sounds just as you described!) A white swet potato i suspect is jersey white, an Evangeline, a Japanese one and 2 Okinawan ones which are allegedly harder to get.to make slips

 

[GoneWithTheFig]

I've gotta try the Okinawan that everyone talks about. I've just not had the desire to since I've had my Japanese and an American friend, and now you tell me the Korean one is better. I'll have to go buy some this weekend so I can make my final decision on which slips to grow this year.

 

[snarfing]

I've gotta try the Okinawan that everyone talks about. I've just not had the desire to since I've had my Japanese and an American friend, and now you tell me the Korean one is better. I'll have to go buy some this weekend so I can make my final decision on which slips to grow this year.

It is better but I have this idea in my head that the more colors on my plate the healthier I am. Something with phytonutrients so I decided I needed to grow sweet potatoes of each color. Okinawa was quite nice though different. Less desserty and take a bit longer to cook

 

[Kompakfigs]

Has anyone tried eating the leaves.

 

[grasshopper]

Has anyone tried eating the leaves.

By mid-summer, I no longer need to buy veggie from stores because of the abundance of leaves on the sweet potatoes. Typically, I boil/steam/stir fry them.

 

[GoneWithTheFig]

By mid-summer, I no longer need to buy veggie from stores because of the abundance of leaves on the sweet potatoes. Typically, I boil/steam/stir fry them.

Oooh...would be so good to eat with hot pot/shabu!

 

[Kompakfigs]

Oooh...would be so good to eat with hot pot/shabu!

I grow horseradish and the young tender leaves are great in hotpot.

 

[DallasFigShop]

I didnt realize the leaves were good too eat! Maybe a nono with regular potatoes due to toxicity

I have to work on beds soon.. Murasaki starts from store potatoes make alot fewer slips but in a large open sun facing window they are growing tall and trying to vine onto anything and everything.

The Blue Sweet potatoes that started at least a month earlier, maybe early or late November, are ranging from 12-15 inches tall and not vining so much ... the pots are probably full of baby potatoes...

I have enough slips to supply a grocer i may have to get creative

 

[grasshopper]

I didnt realize the leaves were good too eat! Maybe a nono with regular potatoes due to toxicity

I have to work on beds soon.. Murasaki starts from store potatoes make alot fewer slips but in a large open sun facing window they are growing tall and trying to vine onto anything and everything.

The Blue Sweet potatoes that started at least a month earlier, maybe early or late November, are ranging from 12-15 inches tall and not vining so much ... the pots are probably full of baby potatoes...

I have enough slips to supply a grocer i may have to get creative

Potatoes are in the nightshade family and Sweet potatoes are in the morning glory family.

Night -> Poison
Morning -> good eats.

Oh, of course you can eat the fruit of a nightshade family when stored properly.

You don't need a lot of slips. A 6" slip can cover/overflow a 4x8' bed in couple months. A small functional bud of 3-4" can produce 50+ slips. I ran out of places to plant them or give them away.

I kept mine in a dark garage over winter and would need about a week to reactivate them.

 

[snarfing]

I didnt realize the leaves were good too eat! Maybe a nono with regular potatoes due to toxicity

I have to work on beds soon.. Murasaki starts from store potatoes make alot fewer slips but in a large open sun facing window they are growing tall and trying to vine onto anything and everything.

The Blue Sweet potatoes that started at least a month earlier, maybe early or late November, are ranging from 12-15 inches tall and not vining so much ... the pots are probably full of baby potatoes...

I have enough slips to supply a grocer i may have to get creative

dont forget since sweet potatoes root at nodes you can make each long vine into multiple slips most likely. each node can be cut up to make its own slip

 

[DallasFigShop]

dont forget since sweet potatoes root at nodes you can make each long vine into multiple slips most likely. each node can be cut up to make its own slip

I know i was thinking I would just transplant the bases and water root a bunch of new slips soon but I would need more deep beds lol maybe bags

 

[spllogics]

Im so glad this is a topic. I got two unknown varieties from the local markets. I am wondering if anyone has any guesses to the actual variety. I think the ones on the right are Murasaki. The other Im not sure. It has purple flesh.

 

[snarfing]

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Im so glad this is a topic. I got two unknown varieties from the local markets. I am wondering if anyone has any guesses to the actual variety. I think the ones on the right are Murasaki. The other Im not sure. It has purple flesh.

right is definately some sort of japanese/korean sweet potato.

the ones on the left are purple? I mean they dont quite have that stokes purple shape but thats the most common purple out there. what store did you grab em from

 

[spllogics]

right is definately some sort of japanese/korean sweet potato.

the ones on the left are purple? I mean they dont quite have that stokes purple shape but thats the most common purple out there. what store did you grab em from

The ones on the right have a purple flesh and the left has a white flesh.
The left i got from an Indian+Asian Market and the right I got from a local produce stand in SC (they didnt know the var. Only that it was purple flesh)