I love sweet potatoes (or kumara), baked, fried or mashed, which is just as well because I have started growing some and it looks like they really like where they’ve been planted and are taking over (Well they’re battling the nasturtiums for control anyway)!

We had some tubers in the cupboard and one started sprouting and, as I had wanted to grow some, I took the opportunity to cut it in three and plant it in the raised bed next to the water tank (the home of the lonely watermelon). I had to temporarily put some neting over them to stop the birds digging them up (I’m not sure what the attraction was) but they are growing well now.

These are the ones with the pinkish-orange flesh and think they are probably the same as the American “Beauregard” variety. Needless to say it is going great and I’m looking forward to a bumper crop. Now I just have get a few different varieties.