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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

rrandall1 wrote:

> 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.

Could you explain "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).

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