Blue sweet potatoes (pic)

[Kim_NC]

DH purchased some blue sweet potatoes at one of the farmers markets we attend. Another vendor had them. She's going to bring us some of her tiny ones to save for seed potatoes for next season.

Here's a plate of them, peeled, cubed and ready to be roasted with last night's dinner. It's not quite as clear as I'd like, but the coloring is correct.:

Edit: Oopppssss, my title said Bluew instead of Blue. LOL

 

[digitS']

I've got some of those, Kim! But, I'm not sure if I've got any tubers . . .

I got purple Japanese sweet potatoes from California, started them in pots in the greenhouse and set them out, quite late in June. At this point, I don't see any evidence of anything going on below the soil surface . . .

Obviously, this isn't sweet potato country. Often, we've had frost by now. The only other time I've had sweet potatoes was as an ornamental vine .

Steve

 

[hoodat]

Sweet potratos aren't a good bet if you don't have a long warm season. They are a sub tropical crop. On Okinawa they depend more on sweet potatos than they do rice. I've never seen so many varieties as they have there.

 

[lesa]

OK Kim-lets have the report! They look gorgeous, what did they taste like?? I enjoy growing the ornamental sweet potatoes, but I don't think our season is long enough for the veggie!

 

[wifezilla]

I tried growing garnet sweet potatoes. I pulled up one plant and I do have taters, but they are tiny. Sandhill preservation sells brands specifically for growing in cooler climates and I am going to order some next year. The garnets made for an attractive landscaping plant, but not enough tater growth to bother with in my zone.

 

[jojo54]

I got a good harvest of sweet potatoes last year when we had a long, hot summer. This year they did not produce worth a darn - the year was too cool. You do have to start the plants indoors. There are a couple of threads on here about that:
http://www.theeasygarden.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=27287

http://www.theeasygarden.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=27471

http://www.theeasygarden.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=27819

 

[wifezilla]

This place has quite a few early season varieties.
http://abundantacres.net/sweetpot.htm

 

[Warthog]

Love the colour, please let us know if they taste and different.

 

[Greenthumb18]

Interesting color for sweet potatoes, never even seen purple sweet potatoes before, but i have seen blue potatoes. Can't wait to harvest my sweet potatoes this will be my first year growing them, the leaves are still green i guess your suppose to wait until the foliage dies back like the regular potatoes.

 

[dickiebird]

I've never heard of growing sweet potatoes from seed potatoes, all I've ever seen are slips.
I dug some of my sweets a few weeks ago and got a few quite large potatoes but also a truck load of very small ones. I deep fried some of the little guys like french fries but maybe I'll keep the rest for seed.

THANX RICH