Highland Horticulture
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Sweetpotato Slips
Good Sweetpotatoes start with good seed and slips. Sweet potato seed has to be refreshed constantly because it loses quality from year to year. Viruses can infect a crop, resulting in reduced yields, poor quality and misshapen tubers.
Micropropagated mother plants are used to produce our seed stock and subsequently our slips. Micropropagation ensures all viruses that may affect the growing potential of a Sweetpotato plant are eliminated. We aim to supply the best UK grown Sweetpotato slips to farmers and growers.
Varieties
Beauregard a bushy, vine-type sweet potato, which has rose-colored skin with light, moist, orange flesh. It resists cracking and has an excellent yield with a shorter (90 days) growing season.
Carolina Ruby has dark red skin with an orange, moist flesh. This vine-type variety produces good yeilds with excellent shape. Great tasting variety with an intermediate growing season of 95 - 100 days.
O'Henry a relative of the Beauregard this bushy, white skinned, vine type variety has the same growing characteristics. Good yield with short growing season of 90 to 95 days.
Tainong 65 (T65) a vigorous variety, grows well in cooler temperatures. Produces good sized white fleshed tubers with a plum skin (similiar to the South African Bush Bok). Growing season of about 120 days