Ipomoea batatas
Sweet potato
Common names: Batata
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Description
The sweet potato is a warm‑loving, wind‑tolerant tuberous vine that has proven surprisingly successful in German gardens in recent years. Unlike the potato, it is not botanically related, but it produces sweet, orange‑fleshed tubers beneath its ground‑covering vines.
Care instructions
Start seedlings in March and transplant them into a warm bed or under a cover after the last frost, around mid‑May (week 20). Keep the soil consistently moist, give the plant plenty of space to vine, and harvest the tubers in September or October before the first cold weather.
Companion planting
Rather not
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