Heirloom
Sweet Potatoes
We are closed for the 2010 Season.
Thank you for your business. We'll see you next year.
PLEASE NOTE:
Listed below are our 2010 offerings.
All Sweet Potatoes are $1.75 PLUS SHIPPING.
When ordering Sweet Potatoes use the shipping button on this
page. This button will add the correct shipping charge for your
order. Failure to add correct shipping charge may delay your order.
Please do not use this button for any other items.
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We
ship sturdy young bare-root plants. We
reserve the right to limit
very large orders of sweet potato plants, according to our supply and
the demand we may experience.
Our Sweet Potato plants are
greenhouse- and hotbed-grown. We anticipate them being available from
April 26, 2010 until early-to-mid-June, or until sold out for the
season.
NOTE: Number of days from transplanting
until harvest is only for comparison purposes between varieties. Actual
number of days varies with location and growing conditions.
SWEET POTATO CULTURE
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All Sweet Potatoes are $1.75 PLUS SHIPPING.
Betty New
Early. Cut-leaf plant, Semi-bush,
pink-red skin, light orange flesh. Possibly the same variety as
Continental Red.
Brazilian New
Mid-season. Very vigorous vines
produce a large tuber with white skin and white flesh. Abundant yield.
Brinkley White New
Mid-season. Vigorous vines,
creamish-white skin, cream colored flesh. Excellent yields of fat
tubers produced very close to the plant.
Carogold New
Early.
Developed by Clemson College in 1958, this smooth skinned sweet potato
has bright purple skin and orange flesh.
High yielding, rampant vines. Fusarium wilt resistant.
Centennial New Sold out for
2010
Early. Semi-bush, normal leaf, copper
skin with pale orange
flesh; adapted for heavier soils. Above average yield of
medium to large cylindrical roots with high carotene content. Good
keeper.
Dingess Pink Tint New
Mid-season. A
white fleshed beauty with white skin flecked with pink. Vigorous vines
give above average yields.
Envy New
Early. Pale orange flesh and skin, ivy leaf,
stays slightly firm when
baked.
Georgia
Jet New
Early. Semi-bush,
green colored normal leaf, pink-red skin, moist
orange
flesh, above average yield. Very popular with gardeners. Makes very
large tubers that tend to crack
more than most varieties. Does well in northern gardens.
Heartogold New
Early. Developed in
1947 from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Produces vigorous
vines and huge yields of tan skinned, bright orange flesh
tubers. Good soil rot resistance. Similar to Nancy Hall.
Ivis
White Cream New
Very Limited Supply
Early. Produced even in the northern part of
the US and the coast of Washington this early variety comes from the
eastern mountains of Tennesse. White skin and cream colored flesh
that is firm but moist. The plant has pale green normal leaves, uniform
roots, with excellent yields. Taste improves after storage.
Japanese
Purple New
Mid-Season 100-120 days.
Dark red skin and creamy white
flesh. Unusual flavor when cooked with dry but sweet flesh.
Korean
Purple New
Early 90 days. Vines produce purple skinned, white
fleshed sweet tubers The plants are very productive and have dark green
leaves.
Mahan New
Cut-leaf plant with magenta skin, sweet
orange flesh, productive. Reputed to not be attractive to White Tail
deer.
Purple New
Early 90
days. Vigorous
vines produce deep purple skinned tubers with purple flesh and unusual
flavor.
Red
Wine Velvet New
Mid-season. Average
vines with large reddish-purple leaves, beet-red skin and yellow-orange
flesh. Produces tubers with moist and very sweet flesh.
Grown in Georgia since the 1950's.
Shore Gold New
Early. Semi-bush, Smooth, light copper toned skin and
bright orange flesh. A high-yielding producer of tubers that have
excellent baking and canning qualities. Good fusarium wilt and
root knot nematode resistance.
Theodore
Meece Old Fashioned White New
Mid-season. Matures in Septermber in northern
US. Long vines on plants that produce average yields. White skinned
with dry white flesh.
Violetta Sold out for 2010
Early.
90-95
days. Purple to almost red skin with white flesh.
Wonderfully sweet tubers; this was one of our most productive varieties
in our 2007 trials.
Wilma's New
Mid-season. Orange skin, pale
orange flesh. Performed rather well for us in 2009 from a late planting
and despite cool summer weather.
Willowleaf New Sold out for
2010
Early 90 days. Semi-bush plants and light orange skin,
orange flesh potatoes. Gives excellent
yields.
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