Growing Sweet Potato, also Kumara

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28 Apr 14 jan (Australia - temperate climate)
i have read on gardenate that sweet potatoes aren't suitable for temperate Australia. A chinese man gave me a sweet potato vine cutting and I've been harvesting the greens off this for several months now. When does the plant die down for harvesting the sweet potatoes underneath? At the moment there seems to be constant growth on top and only an occasional yellow leaf.
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04 May 14 Steve McLeish (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
when do i harvest my sweet potatoes
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29 Apr 14 Jaizi (Australia - temperate climate)
Hi Jan, I'm growing sweet potatoes in Temperate too. They grow really easily here actually, but mine have never died back like it says. You just have to dig around and see if they are a good size. You don't even have to harvest to whole plant, just a couple of tubers at a time and let it keep on growing. They are also really easy to transplant to another area, they're just an all-round hardy food plant. The hard part of transplanting is to make sure you get it all, otherwise you'll have them re-sprout. Jaizi
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