Sweet potato 2 organic plants

Bring a tropical touch to your vegetable garden with these sweet potato plants. These vigorous, easy-to-grow perennials will provide you with an abundance of tasty, delicately sweet tubers perfect for all kinds of creative recipes, both sweet and savory, baked, steamed, in pies, au gratin, mashed and more. From planting to harvesting, learn how to grow this potato in your own garden!

When to plant sweet potatoes?

Sweet potatoes are planted in the garden when there's no risk of frost and the soil is sufficiently warm, from mid-May to June.

This vegetable requires average temperatures above 20°C, and ideally around 25°C. For cooler regions, grow in greenhouses or large pots.

How to plant sweet potatoes

If the climate is still cool and it's not possible to plant them in the ground, transplant sweet potato plants into a bucket or larger pot:

• Place a mixture of universal potting soil and garden soil in a larger pot, a third of the way up;
• remove the seedlings;
• place them at the bottom of the pot;
• fill to within 1 cm of the pot's rim with the potting mix;
• pack lightly;
• water regularly;
• Place in a warm, bright spot.

To plant sweet potatoes properly in the vegetable garden:

• form a mound about 15 cm high;
• dig holes 40 cm apart on the mound;
• place a good handful of well-decomposed compost at the bottom;
• unstack the plants;
• Place them upright in each hole;
• close up and pack lightly around the plants;
• water generously;
• plant the plants as soon as they start to develop new stems;
• water regularly.

When to pick sweet potatoes?

Although sweet potatoes begin to form their delicious tubers from mid-August onwards, they are harvested before the first frost, mainly in October and November.

Gently pull out the tubers with a spade fork, taking care not to damage them. Leave to dry in the sun for a few hours before storing.

Sweet potatoes don't keep well out of the ground, so store them ideally in peat-filled crates in a cool, dry place.

What to plant next to sweet potatoes?

Although combining crops in the vegetable garden can improve yields, repel certain pests and diseases, or optimize available space, it should not become a constraint or an obstacle, and should be thought through before planting, according to your expected objectives.

A fairly large sweet potato plant quickly takes up space in the vegetable garden. To optimize this space, plant fast-cycling varieties at the foot of the sweet potato:

• lettuce ;
• rocket ;
• watercress
• radish ;
• etc.

Shipping and delivery of sweet potato plants

• Orders are dispatched Monday to Thursday.
• Shipment to mainland France only.
• Shipping cartons designed for optimum protection of plants.
• Free shipping does not apply to plants.