Sweet Potato Plants – Beauregard
The superb all-rounder, versatile and delicious!
The Sweet Potato plant ‘Beauregard’, will produce great crops of medium-sized tubers with sweet, salmon-orange flesh. Simply pot and grow your sweet potato plants on in a frost-free environment until June. Then either re-pot or plant into a sunny spot in the garden and you’ll be harvesting your very own sweet potatoes this autumn! Beauregard is packed full of vitamins and iron, they can be boiled, steamed, baked, mashed or chipped – Delicious!
Growing Information
Gradually acclimatise sweet potato plug plants to outdoor conditions over 7-10 days prior to planting directly outside once all risk of frost has passed. Sweet potatoes require high temperatures of 24-26°C (74-78°F). Planting them through black plastic will provide extra warmth in cooler climates. When growing sweet potato in particularly cold areas they are best grown in greenhouse borders or under cloches.
Plant sweet potatoes 30cm (12″) apart, leaving 75cm (30″) between rows. Grow sweet potatoes in rich fertile, light sandy well drained soil. They prefer an acid or neutral soil in full sun. Prepare the soil in early spring by adding plenty of well rotted manure or garden compost to the soil to improve its structure and fertility. Water generously after planting.
