I grow a lot of different kinds of purple sweet potatoes, they do very well for me and they are not only healthier but better tasting than the orange ones in my opinion...

Some of the harvest last season

I love them roasted, this one is white outside and purple inside.

Silvia

I've never seen a purple sweet potato. Very entertaining. I will have to try those where would i find them

I got mine last time from Bakers Creek, very good quality slips. If you want to try a new variety from the store, go to the oriental market and get the one that is purple outside and white inside. I planted different varieties and they are all different taste, some were purple inside and outside, others were purple outside and yellow inside, the ones in the picture are purple inside and white outside. Roasting brings out the flavor,

I tried fresh market. They cant get them. Wish we had an asian market None close by. The problem with ordering on line, they will not ship until may or june at the soonest

Strange maybe it was just my FM. Have you tried Amazon?

Our local FM has had a very poor selection of potatoes this winter compared to what they normally have (not even Yukon Gold), but I've never seen purple ones there.

Trader Joe's had bags of organic ones, when I was there yesterday...

Sweet potatoes are the cheapest and easiest things to grow if you get the slips from someone, I have not started mine yet....

If you look in any other store that sells Japanese purple sweet potatoes, you can try that.

On the other hand purple regular potatoes are more work to grow, have to pick the right timing.

Here are my purple potatoes with other varieties...

Silvia

ohhh yummmmss i want to eat them all the same time :P Thank you

I live in NJ and have grown them from slips purchased from Baker Creek.

Molokai sweet potato was very purple but also not very sweet. Their flesh is dark like blueberries, they'll stain your skin purple.
Okinawa purple tasted better. They're a light purple and have an almost light lavender aroma.

From the asian markets, at least around here, they're imported from Hawaii which gamma irradiates their exports, they won't sprout.

When baking, because the Asian sweet potatoes are so dry, they benefit from baking in aluminum foil. I usually do not wrap the orange varieties.

ilurk, I like the dryness, starchy taste of the purple varieties. I put them on the grill with foil and served for Thanksgiving, everyone liked them. When roasting in the oven, I just season them with avocado oil, salt and pepper, without any covering and they get very crispy.

Other years I also ordered different varieties from Sandhill and they were all good. I think for now my very favorite is the Myanmar.:) maybe next year, I will have a different one.:)

Silvia

Sweet pot slips. I have vines coming off the potato. Do i need to break them off and root them or just break them off and place in the ground? Thanks

When I make sweet potato slips, I usually put a little bit of the tuber in water and let them grow, break them when they are a little bit longer at least 6 inches and put them in water till I see roots, then I plant them. They are very easy, you can also root them in soil.