Best Tasting Sweet Potato
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Comments (13)For people interested in the purple skin purple flash sweet potatos, I recommend try to find and taste them first. I bought 25Lb in a box from the local farmers market 2 or 3 years ago, mistaking them as Okinawan SP. They were simply the most bland sweet potato I have ever had. They taste nothing like Okinawan sweet potato. The texture was not creamy neither. I had to send all of them (cooked and uncooked) into compost bin. Interstly that was the only time that I have seen them for sale. I know taste is subjective and some people may like the purple skin SP. Just do a little more research before making the comitment of growing it....See MoreBeauregard Sweet Potato Plants
Comments (8)I believe Beauregard is the gold standard. Plenty of vendors will tell you that this plant or that plant taste better than or the same as Beauregard but I have never known that to be true. I have had some Beau's that tasted just like regular sweet 'taters but when they're good, they put all others to shame. They taste like you've already made pie or casserole with them! like they've been injected with cinnamon and brown sugar fresh from the soil. Stokes Purple's are a wine red very tasty sweet potato. I believe they do not sell plants of it to the public. I think that one family farm owns the rights to it and they do all the processing and production of products that include it (and they make a million things with Stokes County Purple Sweet Potato!). But they are reddish purple - not that there's anything wrong with that. Okinawa Purple and a few others are bright kid's-toy purple and the color only gets richer when you cook with it. The flavor is sweet like a normal sweet potato - very good roasted and slathered in butter. The tubers offered in the stores are most often from Hawai'i where it is a favorite vegetable. To import them from the islands they are treated with radiation and will rarely sprout vines. I bought my tiny cutting while up in Philadelphia in March from a small Asian Plant shop. She said she imported seeds from Australia since she could never get viable plants here. My plant is doing just fine out in the garden. I should have slips (babies) and at least a pie to bring to the fall swap....See Morebest tasting sweets
Comments (3)There is an ornamental that is very edible called "Sweet Pickle". It is very easy to grow...looks good and tastes good. TGS is one source for seeds, but others have them too. Scroll down the page for description... Here is a link that might be useful: TGS...See MoreWhat is the best tasting disease resistant sweet cherry?
Comments (5)I have Black Gold, Vandalay, Big Star and Danube (sour cherry). Sour cherry is definitely easier to grow, fewer diseases. Common diseases are cherry leave spot, canker, cracking and brown rot. Leave spot can be sprayed with fungicide like myclobutanil (Immunox) or chlorothalonil (Daconil). I have heard that Daconli may help with canker, too. But canker does not really have effective treatments except for keeping trees healthy. Cracking is hard to prevent. A dry spell when fruit is about to ripen and follows by good rain, most cherries will crack. All mine cracked in that condition in 2013. Brown rot will come. It just take a few years after fruiting before it shows up. Mine showed up full force in 4th year. Need to spray with Monterey Fungi fighter. This is my experience growing cherries in New England with the humid summer. The more humid, the harder to grow it....See Moreelisa_z5
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