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[rrandall1 <rrandall1@houston.rr.com>]

Actually, sweet potato spinach is a distinct variety of sweet  
potato.  The tuber is white starchy, is small, root like, and looks  
inedible.  The leaves though taste like and look like the tuber  
varieties. What makes this variety standout is that it does very well  
here in clay soils as an understory plant below persimmons, or  
blackberry muscadine stacks.

Conventional sweet potatoes have trouble with tight soils and  
certainly don't produce tubers easily in such conditions.  I need to  
put them in a foot of good soil. Additionally, conventional ones lose  
tuber production if you grow them for leaves.

We got our start from the Chinese Organic Gardening Club here in  
Houston. See page 550 in Cornucopia II.

Our sweet potato spinach comes back easily in the spring here in zone  
9 or (Global Warming 10).

Bob Randall
On Oct 27, 2006, at 3:53 PM, Sharon Gordon wrote:

> > What's "sweet potato spinach"?
>
> The greens/leaves from sweet potatoes.  You can cook them just like  
> spinach.
>
> Sharon
> gordonse@one.net
>
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