Abundant Acres

Heirloom Sweet Potatoes

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Listed below are our 2012 offerings.

All Sweet Potatoes are $1.75 PLUS SHIPPING.

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We ship sturdy young bare-root plants. We reserve the right to limit very large orders of sweet potato plants, according to our supply and the demand we may experience.

Our Sweet Potato plants are greenhouse- and hotbed-grown. We anticipate them being available from April 25, 2012 until early-to-mid-June, or until sold out for the season.

NOTE: Number of days from transplanting until harvest is only for comparison purposes between varieties. Actual number of days varies with location and growing conditions.

SWEET POTATO CULTURE

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Amish Bush Porto Rico
Early. Semi-bush variety with pink skin and orange flesh. This cut-leaf plant gives an above average yield.

Betty
Early. Cut-leaf plant, Semi-bush, pink-red skin, light orange flesh. Possibly the same variety as Continental Red.

Brinkley White
Mid-season. Vigorous vines, creamish-white skin, cream colored flesh. Excellent yields of fat tubers produced very close to the plant.

Carogold
Early. Developed by Clemson College in 1958, this smooth skinned sweet potato has bright purple skin and orange flesh. High yielding, rampant vines. Fusarium wilt resistant.

Centennial
Early. Semi-bush, normal leaf, copper skin with pale orange flesh; adapted for heavier soils. Above average yield of medium to large cylindrical roots with high carotene content. Good keeper.

Dingess Pink Tint
Mid-season. A white fleshed beauty with white skin flecked with pink. Vigorous vines give above average yields.

Envy
Early. Pale orange flesh and skin, ivy leaf, stays slightly firm when baked.

Georgia Jet
Early. Semi-bush, green colored normal leaf, pink-red skin, moist orange flesh, above average yield. Very popular with gardeners. Makes very large tubers that tend to crack more than most varieties. Does well in northern gardens.

Heartogold
Early. Developed in 1947 from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Produces vigorous vines and huge yields of tan skinned, bright orange flesh tubers. Good soil rot resistance. Similar to Nancy Hall.

Japanese Purple
Mid-Season 100-120 days. Dark red skin and creamy white flesh. Unusual flavor when cooked, with dry but sweet flesh.

Korean Purple
Early 90 days. Vines produce purple skinned, white fleshed sweet tubers The plants are very productive and have dark green leaves.

Nugget
Mid-season. A light orange flesh and pink skin describes this variety which was introduced by the North Carolina Experimental Station. A vining cut-leaf plant that give average yields. .

Pumpkin Yam
Early. Gives excellent yields of orange tubers with light orange flesh. Plants have normal leaves and a vining habit. Slow to sprout.

Purple
Early 90 days. Vigorous vines produce deep purple skinned tubers with purple flesh and unusual flavor. We found it to be pleasant, vaguely aromatic. The purple flesh holds its color through the cooking process.

Mid-season. Average vines with large reddish-purple leaves, beet-red skin and yellow-orange flesh. Produces tubers with moist and very sweet flesh. Grown in Georgia since the 1950's.

Stevenson
Mid-season. Bush plant with green leaves and green/pink stems produces tubers with yellow/copper skin and with yellow flesh. A sweet variety with no strings. Execllent keeper.