At least there's hope yet for some of the summer garden. I tried to do sweet potatoes this year in a huge container. It wasn't the best of ideas since the potatoes grow near the surface and not along the stem like other potatoes, but it was worth a shot. The sweet potato plants were looking rough...very, very rough when I came back from vacation, but they were trying to sprout some new leaves from the base, so I was hopeful.
Yesterday I dumped a bucket of water on them and look what was exposed!
Sweet potatoes are growing and getting fatter by the day. Looks like if I trim off some of the runners and give these guys a few more months, I'll have excellent, fat, sweet potatoes in September or October. For now, I covered this guy back up with soil to keep him from greening and I'm grinning like a fool.
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Ooooh, sweet potatoes. It looks excellent!
ReplyDeleteLove sweet potatoes, I'm trying the same thing this year, for the first time. Hope mine are growing there under the surface too.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with those sweet potatoes. I so love to eat them but have never grown them.
ReplyDeletelooks great! that is still one thing I have yet to try...
ReplyDeleteI love growing sweet potatoes, too. They are almost fool-proof here in Georgia. With all the problems that so many crops have here in the humid South, an easy crop is welcome!
ReplyDeleteAwesome! I love a nice surprise find in the garden!
ReplyDeleteOh wow! I'm regretting not growing sweet potatoes this year. I just wasn't sure how they would do in our climate.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to see how this guy turns out!
So I should be trimming back the runners? That sweet tator there has me drooling....LOVE those garden fresh sweet potatoes!
ReplyDeleteKelly, I've heard it's like pinching out flowers. You want it to put the energy into growing the spuds and not the runners. I didn't trim runners last year and got a bunch of leaves and thin, scraggly potatoes. I was going to try to trim the leaves this year.
ReplyDeleteI'm thrilled that your sweet potatoes are doing well!
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