How to Grow Sweet Potato at Home

• Sweet Potatoes like a lot of compost added to the soil.
• They need little attention while they grow.
• Make sure you have enough space for them as they can spread far and wide.
• Once the sweet potatoes are established in your garden, they will come up year after year.

Companions (do well together)
• Sweet Potatoes companions unknown

Antagonists (don't do well together)
• Sweet Potato enemies unknown

• Sweet Potatoes are ready to be harvested when the vines start to turn yellow at the end of the season.
• They will happily come up again in the next season.
• Dig out Sweet Potatoes and allow them to lie in the sun for 3 - 4 hours. This process is called curing.
• Wash them well, taking care to be gentle with the skins.
• When storing them, keep them in a dry cool place, away from light.
• Baked or boiled Sweet Potatoes are delicious, especially when you pick them fresh.
• The young leaves are a useful form of spinach.

• 3-4 sweet potatoes
• Sunflower Oil
• 2-3 cloves Garlic, finely chopped (optional)
• Small bunch fresh Parsley (2 Tbs dried Parsley)
• 2-3 leaves fresh Mustard OR small bunch fresh Basil (2 Tbs dried Basil)
• Pinch of Cayenne Pepper
• Soya sauce (optional)
• Salt and pepper (optional)


• Slice the sweet potatoes into ½ inch wedges or rounds.
• Rub them with oil.
• Spread them out on a baking tray.
• Bake them at 400°F for 35-45 minutes. (depends on heat of oven)
• Prepare the herbs, by chopping them finely.
• When the wedges are soft on the inside and crispy on the outside.
• Take the fries out of the oven; sprinkle the herb mixture over the fries.
• Sprinkle with salt and pepper (optional).
• Sprinkle with Soya sauce (optional) and savor the delicious flavor.

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