Food Forest Plants

Spring! Our nursery in Tea Gardens is back open Fridays and Saturdays. Online stock is added as plants wake up from their winter slumber. we hope for more suna and less rain! Also there are some new Plants.

Food Forest Plants

Sweet Potato ‘Northern Star’, Ipomoea batatas, 3 unrooted cuttings

This sweet potato variety is bred for cooler climates and matures faster.

$8.95

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Description

Plant supplied as unrooted cuttings. They are very easy to root, simply stick the cuttings in your favourite medium (i.e. sharp sand) or even root them in plain water!

This variety has pretty heart-shaped leaves and makes a nice groundcover.

Sweet potato ‘Northern Star” is bred to produce in cooler climates. That does not mean that this sweet potato can withstand frost, but plantlets could be overwintered inside. the flesh of this sweet potato is white but the skin purplish.

The leaves of this perennial root crop can be eaten like spinach.

 

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