Beauregard Sweet Potato
Ipomoea batatas 'Beauregard'
vegetableBeauregard is the most popular home-garden sweet potato, a vigorous, dependable variety with rosy-copper skin and sweet, moist, deep-orange flesh that bakes and roasts beautifully. A heat-loving tropical vine grown for its swollen storage roots, it is among the earlier sweet potatoes, maturing in about 90 to 105 days, and the sprawling vines also yield edible leaves.
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Sun
full sun
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Water
Every 4 days
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Harvest
~100 days
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Difficulty
medium
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Lifecycle
tender perennial
Perennial in warm zones; grown as an annual where winters freeze
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Spacing
12-18 in. apart
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Planting Depth
Set slips 4 in. deep
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Soil pH
5.5-6.5
Growing Details
Soil Type
Sandy, well-drained
Hardiness Zones
Zones 5 – 11
When to Fertilize
A few weeks after planting; go easy on nitrogen
Fertilizer
Low-nitrogen, higher potassium (5-10-10)
🌱 Growing Guide
Sweet potatoes are grown from rooted sprouts called slips, set out a few weeks after the last frost once the soil is thoroughly warm, since the vines are killed by cold. Plant slips in loose, well-drained soil, ideally in mounded ridges, in full sun, spacing them about a foot apart, and give the rambling vines room to run. They thrive in summer heat and tolerate some drought, needing little fertilizer, since too much nitrogen grows vines at the expense of roots.
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Direct sow
May 13
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Projected first harvest
Aug 21
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✅ Plant alongside
Good neighbors that attract beneficial insects or deter pests
- Bush Beans — Fix nitrogen in the bed
- Dill — Attracts beneficial insects
- Nasturtium — Trap crop for aphids
- Sweet Alyssum — Draws hoverflies that eat aphids
❌ Keep away from
Squash
🛡️ Pest & disease prevention
Proactive ways to stop trouble before it starts — tap a name with an arrow for its full guide
Plant certified slips, rotate away from last year ground, and remove crop debris
Rotate out of grassy ground and avoid planting after sod
Row cover young plants until the vines run
🌾 Harvest & storage
Dig the roots before the first frost, usually when the vines begin to yellow, loosening the soil carefully with a fork since the thin skins bruise easily. Cure the freshly dug roots for about a week to ten days in a warm, humid place around 80 to 85F, which heals nicks and converts starch to sugar, then store at about 55 to 60F, where they keep for months and grow sweeter.
🥗 Nutrition & benefits
Sweet potatoes are an exceptional source of vitamin A, with one root supplying several times the daily value from beta-carotene, plus vitamin C, potassium, fiber, and B6, all with a naturally sweet flavor and no fat.
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