Orleans - Sweet Potato Plugs x 6 Pack
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Orleans – Sweet Potato Plugs x 6 Pack

£9.99

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***PLEASE NOTE : THESE CAN BE PRE ORDERED NOW FOR DELIVERY FROM MID MAY. IF YOU NEED OTHER GOODS SOONER, PLEASE ORDER THOSE SEPERATELY!***

Grow your own delicious sweet potatoes with our high-quality Sweet Potato Plugs, supplied in convenient packs of 6. These young plants are well rooted and ready to grow, with varieties chosen for good performance in Irish climates when grown under protection.

Sweet potatoes thrive in warm conditions, making them ideal for polytunnels, greenhouses, or large containers in a warm, sheltered spot. As the plants grow, they produce vigorous trailing vines and develop tasty sweet potatoes later in the season.

ORLEANS

Ipomoea batatas "Orleans" is in many ways a twin to 'Beauregard' - and at the same time an improvement. The smooth light rose skin and deep orange flesh is indistinguishable from Beauregard. Even the sugar content is the same (11% total sugars in a baked product) as in Beauregard, but what makes Orleans so outstanding for the growers is the regularity of the shape of the roots.

These plugs can be potted on into larger containers or planted directly into grow beds inside a greenhouse or polytunnel once temperatures are warm.

Listing Details

  • Pack size: 6 sweet potato plugs

  • Plug size: approx. 35mm diameter and a few inches in height

  • Varieties available: Bellevue or Orleans

  • Delivery: Dispatched by courier in mid-May, ready for planting season

  • Best grown: In polytunnels, greenhouses, or other warm protected environments

  • Growing & storage guidance: Available on request

Sold in packs of 6. 

***PLEASE NOTE : THESE CAN BE PRE ORDERED NOW FOR DELIVERY FROM MID MAY. IF YOU NEED OTHER GOODS SOONER, PLEASE ORDER THOSE SEPERATELY!***

 

Cultivation advice :

 

  • Type of soil is not important, but it needs to be always humid. If soil is too dry in summer, the plant stops tuberisation and the potential yield decreases.
  • No fertiliser inside soil or inside the water -> if you use fertiliser, you will have big leaves but not big tubers!
  • No fungicide, insecticide needed…
  • 30 cm between plants
  • Sweet potato like sun, hot degrees, and water.
  • Planting from week 22 to harvest end of september

 

If you respect these points, you will have good yield between 1kg to 1.3kg per plant with sweet potato between 300g to 600g

 

Please don’t hesitate to contact Alex if you have any questions.

Potatoes held in cold storage. You will not find better quality potatoes anywhere else.

More than 50 varieties available, we can post as many tubers as you need. Likewise, please get in touch if you require a larger quantity than on the website.

Grow yourself some genuine IRISH potatoes, great taste, great quality.

Patch are specialists in all things potato. Our clients receive only the highest quality seed potatoes. Order with confidence.

Wherever possible, patch will group deliveries together.

Before packing, visual checks completed on all items. Therefore, please advise us immediately you receive a damaged item.

Additional information

Weight 3 kg

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