Posts Tagged: harvesting sweet potatoes
This last freeze destroyed the sweet potato vines (along with the remaining pepper, okra, and tomato plants) into slimy chords. That means only one thing: Time to get dirty. A few small potatoes came right out still attached to the vines. Some stuck up at top of the soil where I planted the slips. Mostly, … Read the rest →
The other day, I harvested my experimental sweet potatoes. They’re experimental, because I didn’t have a clue how to grow them. Now that I’ve completed the experiment, I’m not sure that I know. It’s worth repeating this one in 2014 to find out. Here are the basic steps that I followed, in case you want … Read the rest →