Growing Sweet Potato, also Kumara

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30 Apr 17 Barb (Australia - temperate climate)
We grow sweet potato as a perennial it in a separate bed (South Coast NSW with no frosts). I trim the lengthy vines to keep them within their bed: this seems to enhance formation of tubers, and also increases the small leafy shoots that we use as a yummy leafy vegetable (eg: Asian Stir-fry greens). We add compost and mulch when growth slows in winter, so it has plenty to feed on the following summer. We don't store the roots - just harvest and eat the roots as required.
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01 May 17 Giovanni (Australia - temperate climate)
Good comment about the greens. I will try it. I am further south, well into Victoria and we can grow them.
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