'Evangeline' Sweet Potato Plant
Superbly sweet flavour
Grown by Josh
South Downs National Park
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The highlights
- Top quality tubers with smooth rosy skins
- Reliable and resistant to pests like nematodes
- Makes the brightest mash you'll ever see
- Harvest from late August to October
Description
- Reliable and heavy-cropping, 'Evangeline' is a sweet potato variety with real vibrancy, boasting 40% more beta-carotene than the popular 'Beauregard' variety, resulting in intensely orange flesh.
- Perfect for tastier fries, roasts, mash and wedges, this cultivar features sucrose as its main sugar, as opposed to maltose, which is more commonly found in sweet potatoes. This provides an even sweeter taste than most varieties.
- Grow your sweet potato plants in a greenhouse, polytunnel or a sunny, sheltered spot outdoors, and they'll be ready to harvest from late August to October.
- The tubers are large and robust, and will keep for months after harvesting. To ensure your sweet potatoes stay fresher for longer, keep them in a cool, dark and dry place.
- 'Evangeline' sports great resistance to various common sweet potato problems, including root-knot nematodes, Fusarium wilt and Rhizopus soft rot.
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How to grow
How to grow
Excellent pest and disease resistance
Generally disease free. If grown under cover, may be susceptible to glasshouse red spider mite and glasshouse whitefly.
Water regularly
Water once a week, or more often in hot and dry weather.
Full sun
Plant in a sunny spot where the plants will receive 6-8 hours of sunlight per day.
Any fertile, well-draining soil
Thrives in any well-drained soil. If your soil is particularly clay-heavy and/or often becomes waterlogged then you can improve the drainage by adding in plenty of organic matter such as garden compost as well as some perlite or gravel.
Feed regularly
Feed every four weeks with a fertilizer low in nitrogen and higher in phosphorus and potassium.
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South Downs National Park
Meet Josh
Slow grown veg from the sunny South Downs
Our vegetable plants are sown on a family farm in Lancashire, then nurtured into strong young plants by Josh in the sunny South Downs before they rock up in your garden. By selecting only the strongest and tastiest varieties, Josh makes sure you get a headstart on your plot, with impressive crops and no waste.
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