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I'm going to try growing sweet potatoes in New Hampshire. I know that won't seem like much of a task for those folks in North Carolina, but for those of us who live in the land of rocks and frost it's not so easy. I'm looking out at a field covered with 1½ feet of snow and the possibility that sweet potatoes will grow there seems remote. Anyway, I've ordered Beauregard and Covington slips which should arrive in early June, read available information from local sources, and now thought I'd ask the folks here if they have had success raising sweet potatoes in a cold climate.
The local sources (Maine and New Hampshire) stressed the use of black plastic to raise bed temperatures prior to planting, and the need for fencing if deer were a problem as they loved sweet potatoes. The consensus picks were the Beauregard and the Covington; has anyone had good luck with another variety?
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