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Sunday, August 1, 2010

There's Hope Yet For the Summer

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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10 comments:

  1. meemsnycAugust 1, 2010 at 9:43 AM

    Ooooh, sweet potatoes. It looks excellent!

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  2. AlisonAugust 1, 2010 at 12:33 PM

    Love sweet potatoes, I'm trying the same thing this year, for the first time. Hope mine are growing there under the surface too.

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  3. Daphne GouldAugust 1, 2010 at 1:30 PM

    Good luck with those sweet potatoes. I so love to eat them but have never grown them.

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  4. ErinAugust 1, 2010 at 3:03 PM

    looks great! that is still one thing I have yet to try...

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  5. Amy W.August 1, 2010 at 7:07 PM

    I 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!

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  6. Shawn AnnAugust 1, 2010 at 8:19 PM

    Awesome! I love a nice surprise find in the garden!

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  7. ThomasAugust 2, 2010 at 9:42 AM

    Oh wow! I'm regretting not growing sweet potatoes this year. I just wasn't sure how they would do in our climate.

    I can't wait to see how this guy turns out!

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  8. KellyAugust 2, 2010 at 6:54 PM

    So I should be trimming back the runners? That sweet tator there has me drooling....LOVE those garden fresh sweet potatoes!

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  9. RibbitAugust 2, 2010 at 7:09 PM

    Kelly, 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.

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  10. Jeff VandiverAugust 3, 2010 at 11:07 AM

    I'm thrilled that your sweet potatoes are doing well!

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