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["Kathy Evans" <evansdk@earthlink.net>]

Bob, Thank you for telling me about that variety....does this mean you can
or cannot eat "regular" sweet potato leaves? Thanks, Kathy

Kathy Evans
evansdk@earthlink.net



> [Original Message]
> From: rrandall1 <rrandall1@houston.rr.com>
> To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: 11/5/2006 4:24:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] Sweet Potato Spinach?
>
> 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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