Vegetables · Warm
Sweet potato
Convolvulaceae
At a glance
- Plant spacing
- 40 cm
- USDA zones
- 6a–11b
- Frost-sensitive
- yes
- Growth duration
- 22 weeks
Which beds suit?
- Sun (prefers)
- full sun
- Soil (prefers)
- sandyAlso okay:loamyraised-bed mix
- Drainage (prefers)
- normalAlso okay:very free-draining
Seed & start
Pre-culture recommended
Start indoors / cold frame first, transplant into the raised bed later.
Stachi's tip
Sweet potato is the tropical diva — 4-5 months, lots of warmth + water. In temperate raised beds only under fleece. Harvest tubers in October when foliage withers.
Sowing
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Transplanting
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Harvest
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Good neighbours
Avoid these neighbours
No known conflicts.
Good pre-cultures
Stachi has no specific pre-cultures recorded.
Sources
- LLM-Baseline+gpt-5-review
- LLM-Baseline-Intercrop
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-09 yieldKg
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 family-zehrer
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 sun-soil-drainage