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Cultivation and benefits of sweet potatoes
pmmoskwa
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in Fruit & veg
I have potatoes, but recently I read an article about benefits of sweet potatoes and I wonder if they do not start growing them. What do you think?
http://perfect24hours.com/what-are-the-health-benefits-of-sweet-potatoes/
Last edited: 07 November 2017 16:52:15
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Sweet potatoes are very nutritious as well as tasty and count as a vegetable in your 5-a-day whereas ordinary potatoes don't. However, sweet potatoes are rather difficult to grow in northern climes as they need reliable warm and moisture to ripen and grow to a decent size.
I, for one, will carry on buying them as they're cheap enough and keep well so when I see some very good ones I can stock up. We like them roasted, mashed, in curries, baked as dauphinoise and so on. Very rarely eat ordinary potatoes.