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Sweet Potato at the supermarket

Only Woolworths prices this, at $4.90/kg right now  (23/10/2026)

▲ 3.5% per month

Price is rising at 3.5% per month over the 7 months on file.

Sweet Potato
Current avg
$4.90
per kg
7-mo low
$2.99
best historic price
7-mo high
$6.99
worst historic price
Tracked at
2 shops
of 4 retailers

7 months of sweet potato price history

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Today at each retailer

CHEAPEST
Woolworths
$4.90 per kg
Woolworths Gold Sweet Potatoes Bag
Aldi
$6.99 per kg
Red Sweet Potato 1kg
Different variety, so it sits outside the average above.

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A $5.00 plant can grow roughly $53 worth of sweet potato over a season at today's price of $4.90/kg, from about 10.8 kg off a 4 m² bed. This is a long-term plant. First harvest around year 0.4.

Seed / Plant cost
$5.00
per plant / packet
Annual yield at maturity
10.8 kg
@ $4.90/kg today
Supermarket value
$52.92
at today's prices
Profit
+$47.92
after seed cost
Grows roughly
$53
worth, off one packet
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Best-case estimate, assumes a full, healthy crop and counts only the seed cost (not water, time, or losses). Yield based on a 4 m² home garden bed. Yield source: QLD DAF Sweet Potato Production Guide; ABC Gardening Australia. Supermarket value uses today's live price from this page. Seed price scraped 01/10/2026. Review recommended, data needs verification.

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Pests to watch for

Australian pests and diseases that target sweet potato. Full library.

Common Garden Snail high
Cantareus aspersus (syn. Cornu aspersum, Helix aspersa)
Peak this month
Fusarium Wilt high
Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. melongenae
Peak this month
Whitefly high
Trialeurodes vaporariorum
Peak this month
Slugs moderate
Deroceras reticulatum; Limax spp.; Milax spp.
Peak this month
Curl grub (scarab beetle larvae) moderate
Scarabaeidae spp. (includes African black beetle and Christmas beetle larvae)
Peak this month
Rats and Mice moderate
Rattus rattus; Rattus norvegicus; Mus musculus
Peak this month

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