A tender herbaceous perennial which is treated as an annual in the UK climate. It scrambles or climbs with support, to reach 3.5m. Its attractive green leaves are edible and at the end of the growing season, the underground tuber can also be eaten. This variety has a dull orange skin and extremely sweet, pale orange flesh.
2.5-4 metres
0.1-0.5 metres
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Grow in deep fertile soil in a frost free spot with full light. Can be grown outdoors once all danger of frost is past, but needs a long growing period to produce a root crop. Can be grown in a large container. Train up a cane to save space, along the ground as ground cover, or allow to trail downwards from a container. Eating the leaves as a vegetable will limit its size, but at the expense of the root harvest. For more advice see sweet potato cultivation
Propagate by dividing a tuber into 'slips', which are slices of tuber that include a bud. For more advice see sweet potato cultivation
No pruning required
May be susceptible to glasshoouse red spider mite and glasshouse whitefly
Generally disease-free