Sweet potato
Batata / Boniato · Patate douce
🧩 Role in the garden
- Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Height
- low (< 40 cm)
- Shape
- sprawling
- Roots
- deep
- Sun
- full sun
- Season
- warm season
- Grows in
- ☀ summer beds (warm season)
- Feeds
- light feeder
Jobs in the bed
- Covers the soilShades the soil, keeps moisture in and holds weeds back. Best on the edge of the bed.
Rotation
Do not return Convolvulaceae to the same spot for 3–4 years.
✓ Good neighbours
- ✓ Bean (bush/pole)
- ✓ Beetroot
- ✓ Parsnip
- Salsify
- Summer savory
- Oregano
✗ Keep apart
None listed.
⚠ Use caution
- ⚠ Squash / zucchinisquash competes — both sprawl and need the space
✿ Helpful flowers & herbs
- ✿ ThymeLow ground cover; flowers feed bees & beneficial insects