Sweet Potato Beauregard Tuber

Sweet Potato Beauregard Tuber is has a pink to orange skin and flesh. Roots are extremely high yielding and resistant to cracking. Very fast maturing and good for steaming, boiling and roasting.

Sweet Potatoes are a great source of high yield produce, with each plant (cutting) if looked after producing a minimum of 3 to 4 large tubers. With the main tuber continuing to grow shoots many plants can be acquired. A perennial root that can continue to grow for years if not affected by frosts or by pulling out and will still produce tubers although they may not retain the best of quality. Red tubers have a higher vitamin A content and you can also eat the shoots and leaves(like spinach).

Frosts:

• When planting the area should be frost-free for at least 5 months

  Soil:

• Sweet Potatoes prefer Sandy Loamy soils with a PH between 5.3 – 6.7
• Heaps of space and friable (loose) soil, as compact soil will disfigure and hinder the growth
• Build up mounds or ridges or even place in pots or raised beds with good soil/potting mix

Plant:

• Using a good quality potting mix and a large black pot
• Plant tubers at a depth of 7cm and in a warm sunny sheltered position free from frost.
• After a few weeks, shoots will appear, when they are at least 30cm long cut off at 25mm above ground.
• Remove all leaves but a few at the tip
• Cover at least three nodes with soil
• You can space shoots at 30cm apart and if in rows 3-4 feet between rows
• Cut a few shoots and plant every few weeks to obtain longer harvest