Auther, thanks. I haven't been growing sweet potatoes long, I started growing them as a ground cover and ornamental. Then one year I planted Beauregard because they were much cheaper than paying $2.00 - $4.00 a plant for the ornamentals. I was surprised to see how pretty and productive the plants were.

I would like to show you a picture of my ugliest and largest ornamental. I never ate any of these so don't know how the taste is, but they are so ugly you would have to close your eyes to eat them..

Larry

Mr. Slowpoke, That is the ugliest looking sweet potato I have ever seen. You should set it on your porch for Halloween decoration.
I don't know what my sweet potato's are as they were slips from a grocery store sweet potato. I use them because the gophers & grasshoppers are so bad here that if I ordered slips I might not be able to raise any. I have had sweet potato plants half grown and a gopher will sometimes start at one end of a ridge and burrow all the way to the far end and cut every sweet potato root on the row. Plus the Grasshoppers sometimes will cut a slip off at the ground level. It has happened to mine more than a few times. This is the first year in 5 yrs. that I have been able to grow any at all. But this year I have a few so it can always be worse.