The sweet potatoes arrived as 'slips' in late May and looked like very sickly bindweed shoots. (When I first saw them I thought Vanna had picked bindweed to draw!) After a week in water they were planted in compost in root trainers and then planted outside in mid June. They were lovingly watered through late June and early July's drought and then growth took off in the wet weather of August.
The tubers vary in size and are a lovely pink colour, like the stems. We now have 9lb of sweet potatoes to eat; I think that works out at £1.50 a pound, so they had better taste good!
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