I tried growing them a few years back. Even though it was a warm summer, just like @BobTheGardener 's efforts they made lots of growth but not even enough sweet potatoes to make a few chips. I love sweet potatoes, but to be honest @WillowBark l would save your time and energy for growing something else
Even trained up supports the plants take up a lot of space, need lots of heat (no problem here) and water and feed. I grew some 4 years ago. 3 plants. One gave us enough for one meal for two. One gave hardly enough for a forkful and the other was riddled thru and thru by pests so inedible.
We buy them now - cheap, good quality, grown in France or Spain so low on food miles and I now grow tastier stuff which I can't easily find here - cavolo nero, PSB, heritage varieties of tomato and chilli peppers.
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I love sweet potatoes, but to be honest @WillowBark l would save your time and energy for growing something else
We buy them now - cheap, good quality, grown in France or Spain so low on food miles and I now grow tastier stuff which I can't easily find here - cavolo nero, PSB, heritage varieties of tomato and chilli peppers.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...