Growing Sweet Potato, also Kumara

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02 Mar 09 Jason (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Hello. I have planted a sweet potato in December that has grown many runners. How do I turn that into more sweet potatos and how long do they take to mature? Am I supossed to bury the runners in the soil?? Can't quite seem to get it to work.
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