Sweet potato, or sweet potato
potato - a very tasty, nutritious vegetable, representing underground tubers of perennial vines. In China, it is considered a
vegetable longevity.
Special starch the starch contained in it is suitable for dietary nutrition.
The taste of sweet potato is vaguely similar to potatoes, it is sweeter and has a pleasant specific aftertaste.
Seedlings for sale soon.
New Zealand variety RED with a long creeper and pink tubers. The most delicious, of all that we had to try. After meeting him, we completely gave up potatoes.
Kumara variety RED
The most common in New Zealand.
The tuber itself is pink-red in color.
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The pulp is light, with a yellowish tint. When heat-treated - bright yellow.
The shape is elongated and quite rounded. The largest tuber grown by us was 2.7 kg.
The maximum yield from a bush is 8.5 kg.
The taste is starchy, moderately sweet, with a pleasant aroma.
Tart in its raw form, slightly sweet.
The ripening period is 120 days or more.
Liana is long, up to 5 meters. Easily forms roots.
It needs a garter or more space around it for normal bush development.
The bush is large, very light-loving. The leaf is green, slightly dissected, the liana is green and reddish.
Does not like neighbors and trees nearby. Requires loose, fertile soil, watering.