Hi Kathy: Thanks for the welcome and thanks for taking the time to replay..
I'm 22 miles east of Covington. You're right it could be the cooler climate that made the Evangiline grow like that. What research I've done on them indicates they grow more like your Beauregard. So since they were developed in Louisiana it might take a hot climate to make them grow fater.
Check out the Garnet,, also called (Red Garnet or Diane) I got some from the Organic section at my grocery store and they are the best sweet potato I ever ate. I went back and bought all the small ones for seed potatoes next year in case I can't order any slips. It's been around for a long time. Their shape is about like Beauregard. They have a very high rating on several taste test,, above Covington and Beauregard. But the Evangeline does also. They have a neet deep wine color skin and dark orange flesh.
Some time hard ground will make potatoes grow long and slinder. But your Beauregard did fine so unless you had a hard section of the garden that wasn't the case.
thanks again.
Here are a few potato patch pictures, It was so pretty I hated to dig it up.
And a picture of the Garnet
Thanks
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