Sweet potatoes! I have sweet potatoes! Almost 7 pounds of them were dug up so far. I don't think that there will be many more, but I will root around in the bed this week before my husband starts preparing the bed for planting.
Lots of the sweet potatoes are fingerling sized, but a few are fairly decent, if somewhat oddly shaped. One in this picture sort of resembles a derriere according to my sister and my husband. They used different vocabulary to describe it, but...HA get it...butt...you get the point. ;) Can you tell I hang around middle school children all day?
The variety is "Beauregard". I will probably try a different variety next year to see if I can get some better results. Now I have to let these cure for awhile to develop their sweetness.
Probably you thought I had run out of beans since I have posted about them for the last several blog posts running. Well, not quite yet! We have had an enormous amount of rain lately, which the yard-long beans seem to truly love. There was a pound of them from this week's picking (including a couple of straggling bush beans).
To see what others are harvesting visit Daphne's Dandelions.
Nice to have sweet potatoes from the garden. That's something I should try sometime, maybe in a container.
ReplyDeleteI think maybe it would be easier to harvest them in a container. They spread out a lot in my garden bed. It was like playing hide-and-seek with them. :)
DeleteI like fingerling size sweet potatoes, they are easier to cook and use as snack. I'm growing some in growbag this year, waiting for the SP flowers to come in otherwise I won't know when to dig them up.
ReplyDeleteDo you peel the skins from the fingerling sized sweet potatoes?
DeleteWhat wonderful sweet potatoes! I don't have a spot for them in my garden, but tried to grow some in a metal bin this year. Considering how small the foliage still is, I double I'll be getting much more than a bunch of roots out of it. But I'll likely try again next year.
ReplyDeleteThank you Margaret. I hope you are surprised and get a nice harvest of sweet potatoes despite the small foliage.
DeleteI can't wait to harvest my sweet potatoes. It will be another few weeks though. I leave them as long as possible, but eventually it starts getting colder.
ReplyDeleteI think I will probably let them go another month next time I grow them. What variety did you plant?
DeleteMMMMM. Delicious. I haven't grown potatoes, sweet or otherwise. I usually depend on the farmer's market. Yours look delightful!
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