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Sweet Potato
Varieties - Roll your cursor over the picture for names.
Back row l. to r.- Beauregard
B-73, O'Henry and Hernandez
Front row l. to r. - Beauregard B-14 and Porto Rico
SweetPotato
G-1 Varieties Available from Jim Jones Farms:
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Beauregard
B-73
Has an orange fleshy meat with rosy, copper colored skin. A real
good plant producer; has heavy set...with at least 6 to 8 potatoes
to a hill. They have good uniformity with a more tapered end than
the B-14. This variety matures in 90 to 100 days, stores well with
excellent taste. |
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Beauregard
B-14
Similar in appearance to the B-73, the B-14 is a shorter, stockier
potato, with more rounded ends. They have the same plant production
and maturity characteristics as the B-73, store well with excellent
taste. |
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Hernandez
Has a depper orange flesh with a bighter orange skin. Excellent plant
producer, that takes 10 days longer to size up with a heavy set of
uniform smaller, #1 potatotes per hill.
They also store well with excellent taste. |
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O'Henry
A mutated Beauregard variety, has white flesh with a creamy colored
skin. Growing characteristics
are much like the B-14 and B-73. They also store well with excellent
taste. |
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Porto Rico
An old-fashioned SP that is perhaps the sweetest of all varieties.
While it is not as good appearing (with a more tapered, long belly
pale copper skin and light orange flesh), it is a good plant producer.
It also makes a beautiful , decorative hanging basket with its purple
vines and leaves.
G1 and G2 seed and plant stock are available.
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