Treasure Island Sweet Potatoes , represent in North America by Concept Plants , were of late spot with a Green Thumb Award in the Edible Plants category from the Direct Gardening Association at their DGA 2020 Winter Meeting in Orlando , Florida .
Brian Kirkland , Sales Support and Business Development for Concept Plants , accepted the award from Randy Schultz of Schultz Communications . The Treasure Island Sweet Potatoes are from breed work by the Louisiana State University AgCenter from an original concept growing and collaboration workplace by their mate FitzGerald Nurseries in Ireland .
The Green Thumb Awards recognize new garden ware uncommitted directly to consumer via ring armor club or online . achiever of the 2020 Green Thumb Awards were opt by an independent panel of garden writer and editor . The judging criteria include product singularity , technological institution , ability to solve a gardening problem or cater a horticulture opportunity , and potential solicitation to gardeners .
" Beautiful & tasty treasures"Treasure Island Sweet Potatoes are the first edible and ornamental sweet potato on the grocery . Not only are the leaves colourful , they are edible , too . In the dusk consumer can dig up and revel the colorful sweet potatoes . The flora in the Treasure Island series are named after different Polynesian Islands . Each plant hides a " gem " underneath the land , and the miscellanea sport different leaf and ascendant colours . Unlike other cosmetic Ipomoea , the edible , tasty Treasure Island plants raise a sweet potato crop on par in yield with current commercially produced sweet potatoes . useable in a range of leafage colors and easy to produce in container , the Treasure Island serial gives home base gardeners multiple benefit : attractive foliage colors in bound and summer , the ease of growing edibles in containers , and a sweet potato meal in autumn . In addition to eat the roots , the comestible leaves make a tasty add-on to dishes and salads .
Growers can consecrate through theirBall Seed broker . Consumers can ordinate Treasure Island Sweet potatoes fromSpring Hill Nursery . For more info : Concept Plants ( US)Brian Kirkland844 - 367 - 7723 ( Toll Free)[email protected]www.conceptplants.comPlantipp ( Europe)Peter van Rijssen+31 6 55881900[email protected]www.plantipp.eu
