Growing Sweet Potato, also Kumara

Ipomoea batatas : Convolvulaceae / the morning glory family

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(Best months for growing Sweet Potato in Australia - temperate regions)

P = Plant crowns

Plant shoots or cuttings (Slips). Best planted at soil temperatures between 17°C and 35°C. (Show °F/in)
Space plants: 40 - 60 cm apart
Harvest in 15-17 weeks.
Compatible with (can grow beside): Best in Separate bed

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18 Feb 16, Carol (Australia - temperate climate): The orange one is called Beaurgard. See if you can find a supplier in WA :)
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07 Apr 15, Susan Johnson (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Diggers Club (Vic) and Green Harvest (Q'ld) sell the orange sweet potato, which is quite distinct from NZ Kumera.
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26 Jan 15, Peter (Australia - cool/mountain climate): Kumara are purple and lemon on the inside and taste chestnutty not like the sweet potato in Australia. When you taste a kumara it taste nothing like what some supermarkets are selling as New Zealand kumara.
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07 Apr 15, Susan Johnson (Australia - sub-tropical climate): I am desperately trying to source N Z Kumera in Australia, Peter. Yes, agree - NZ kumera are nothing like the yellow or white sweet potatoes we grow in Australia. My research suggests that the NZ variety may be called 'Candy Kumera', and may have origins in the Pacific Islands. Do you know if this is correct? I assume it wouldn't be possible to import live plants to Australia these days, but am wondering if New Zealanders may have brought it here in the past, in which case there could be slmeone out there growing it.
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07 Jun 15, Nins Ricci (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Send me your addess by email. I have heaps of the real NZ Kumera, purple with white flesh and spots inside. Will nail you some runners. Also in Qld. Mine growing crazy but have not yet had a harvest.
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30 Apr 24, Ali (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Hello Nins, hope all is well! Do u still have Kumara runners?
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26 Jun 22, Tracy M (Australia - arid climate): Hello, would I be able to pay for some runners also? I assume they can grow in Melbourne's climate? Many thanks!!
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30 Sep 21, Matthew Steele (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Hello, I have been looking everywhere for these delightful New Zealand Kumura for years. May I also ask if you would mail me some runners? Happy to pay! Many Thanks.
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04 Sep 20, Rick (Australia - temperate climate): Hi Nins, another kiwi missing his beloved kumara. I imagine you've been inundated with similar requests for runners. Happy to pay something and/or donate to Gardenate if you have plants and the time. thanks Rick
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07 Nov 21, Ian (Australia - cool/mountain climate): Hi I've just stumbled across this thread to NZ kumera, by any chance did you manage to source any runners. Thanks
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Plant a couple of sweet potatoes and use the slips from them. Use the new vine part. Strip most of the leaves off a 250-300mm piece. Did trench and lay flat with the growing tip out of the ground. Water a lot the first 2 weeks. That is the way commercial growers plant sweet potato in Qld

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