It's been so long since I tasted a sweet potato – and even then it was one bought from a store – I can't really recall what they tasted like. A potato, only sweeter, I imagine.
Try the purple Okinawa sweet potatoe if you have the opportunity, the variety with a light, almost white skin similar to a white potato. They are very popular in Hawaii which is where I fell in love with them. Bake them at 350 farenheit until very soft and they taste like a gourmet pastry! Absolutely delicious!
In New Zealand Maori brought kumara with them from more tropical places to a much cooler land. They learnt that mounding up their planting holes by about a foot allowed the soil to warm better, and included stones in the soil to hold heat. These planting methods are still used today in NZ to grow kumera (sweet potato), and offer a similar effect as grow bags.
Coincidentally, I saw a youtube short about Airborne Sweet Potato Farming, (roots in grow bucket, tubers in air hanging on the vines) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1kmWqm_aLc
Hello sir, I am attending a wedding in November in Cloughjordan. Are visits to the Red Gardens permitted or can I freely roam abd take a look at the set up? Thanks
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Where did you buy the bags. Might work well for peppers too. Best of luck in the storm, hope your polytunnels stay in place!
It's been so long since I tasted a sweet potato – and even then it was one bought from a store – I can't really recall what they tasted like. A potato, only sweeter, I imagine.
I will definitely give this a go. 👍
I grew sweet potatoes in a raised bed in Dublin last. Yield was nothing like those bags! 😮
Try the purple Okinawa sweet potatoe if you have the opportunity, the variety with a light, almost white skin similar to a white potato. They are very popular in Hawaii which is where I fell in love with them. Bake them at 350 farenheit until very soft and they taste like a gourmet pastry! Absolutely delicious!
Was the dialog shot in snowy Ireland or was that beautiful wintery Ontario? Greetings from Alberta, thanks for the video. Very interesting results.
Would manure as in an old English hotbed work to improve further?
Grate conclusion!
In New Zealand Maori brought kumara with them from more tropical places to a much cooler land. They learnt that mounding up their planting holes by about a foot allowed the soil to warm better, and included stones in the soil to hold heat. These planting methods are still used today in NZ to grow kumera (sweet potato), and offer a similar effect as grow bags.
Did you add any manure, compost or any other type of fertilizer to the soil in your grow bags?
Coincidentally, I saw a youtube short about Airborne Sweet Potato Farming, (roots in grow bucket, tubers in air hanging on the vines)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1kmWqm_aLc
Hello sir, I am attending a wedding in November in Cloughjordan. Are visits to the Red Gardens permitted or can I freely roam abd take a look at the set up? Thanks