Mine our deep south but maybe not as deep as you want. I am just north of the Florida/Georgia border. I grow my sweet potatoes from slips that grow on my supermarket potatoes. I harvested at least 50 lbs. of them this year. I have tiny fat roots available. My friend says she plants them with great success.

Mine our deep south but maybe not as deep as you want. I am just north of the Florida/Georgia border. I grow my sweet potatoes from slips that grow on my supermarket potatoes. I harvested at least 50 lbs. of them this year. I have tiny fat roots available. My friend says she plants them with great success.

Yes, I could do that, and sometimes I do come across a cultivar in a grocery store that I might actually want to grow, but it's very rare and still I don't know what it is called. I only care for the fine-grained white and yellow fleshed types.

You could try tatorman.com if you don't find a trade.

Whites and yellows are mostly northern or Asian, so it is going to difficult to find many in the south. Sandhill has a good selection and I do grow a white fleshed variety from time to time (White Triumph, Poplar Root,Violetta) I may have a Violetta in my potato storage. Georges plant farm (Taterman) will have O'Henry, Red Japanese, and White Triumph.Good plants and they do have early deleivery.

Farmerdill, will you send me an email? You don't have a contact on your page. Thanks!

Pn brown; I sent you an email, but email does not work well on GW, so I don't know if it was delivered

I didn't see anything that looked right for an email.

Anyway, the description of Violetta (on the sandhill list) sounds an awful lot like what tatorman calls 'red japanese'. I have plenty of those.

I can't see any advantage to using an early variety in FL, in fact it would seem a distinct disadvantage if one needs the tubers to cure in the sand and get pulled in the winter.

I'm going to take a chance on getting slips from George by march 25th or so.

Pnbrown, have you tried the white skinned / purple-fleshed Asian sweet potatoes? I share your preference for the white and yellow fleshed sweet potatoes, and the purple - while smaller - has similar qualities. They are long season (far too long for my climate) but should do very well in Florida. Chances are you could find stock in Asian markets; several markets near me are selling them now.

If you would like to try them & can't find them locally, send me an email. They dry out faster than commercial varieties, so you would want to start slips shortly after you acquire them.

Yeah, that's a good thought, Zeedman, Asian markets. I guess a trip to downtown Orlando will be in orderâ¦I have not tried the purple-fleshed ones, but have heard the flavor is rather different from what we are used to.

Looks like I found someone to send me some tubers of Hayman, which is exiting.