Abundant Acres Growers


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.

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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.