Sweet potatoes are an extremely popular crop, especially lately. People are swapping

them out for their fries, sweet potato fries instead of fries. I typically go for that when I'm out at a restaurant, but despite

the name they aren't related to potatoes at all. With potatoes you're looking at

salonum, tubaroseum, and for sweet potatoes, Ipamamuea, Batadas, that is your sort of master species.

There are over 7,000 different varieties of sweet potatoes in the world,

but we are going to talk about a few of them, really not even all of

them that we put up on the Epic Gardening website.

There's just too many to go through in a simple podcast episode. Nevertheless, we will do a few here so the different types of

sweet potatoes that have orange flesh, those are going to be your most common on the market.

You have varieties like Boregard, Covington, Garnett, and Jewel. Those

are going to be the ones that you will typically see in a grocery store, although you won't

know that because they're not labeled that way at a grocery

store most of the time. Now let's talk about some other varieties. You've got one

called Bayou Bell. These ones are red skinned and have a deep orange flesh 90 to 110 days after planting.

Really nice one. Now let's talk about one that I've grown before which is Porto Rico. It's not spelled like the

territory it is spelled P-O-R-T-O-R-I-C-O. So it is a favorite for people like you and me,

gardeners. It's a great container variety.

The skin is a little bit lighter orange,

very moist, high sugar content,

great for containers. Like I mentioned. It's disease resistant and it's a good baking sweet potato.

Okay, the next one is going to be a white sweet potato. They are probably the second most common type

out there next to the orange,

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