Today's Haul

[ETXfigs]

I started digging up my sweet potatoes today. I am going to look for some more tomorrow. I might not find any tomorrow because the sweet potato vines that I haven't dug up yet were labeled "Ornamental" when I bought it. I don't know if it is a type that produces tubers. The vines that produced the tubers that I dug up today were from the Walmart garden center. Some of them may have been from the grocery produce side of the store, I don't remember. There is a pic below of the "ornamental" vines that I will dig up tomorrow, and also a pic of today's harvest.

Today


Was an 8" long vine when I planted in spring.



Package the Walmart tubers were in.

 

[ohiobruce]

Nice. I grow them in containers.

 

[GoodFriendMike]

Nice haul. Sweet potatoes can take over everything. I planted a okinawan sweet potato in a small pot. Next thing I knew. It spread undergroud and came up in many of my fig trees. Took me forever to remove them. They tasted good.

 

[ktrain]

Sweet taters are one of my favs.
So many ways to prepare them!

 

[StrangeCharmSam]

I keep putting off harvesting my ube 'til I'm ready to move, but I'm starting to think it might be necessary to do so sooner, since the date keeps getting pushed back and pushed back. -_- I'll post a harvest once I do, if it's anything worth posting! It's my first year growing it, and in just a 10lb grow bag.

 

[StrangeCharmSam]

A very small ube haul, but they'll make for lovely slips for next spring. When fingers crossed I'll be able to grow them in ground instead of in one 10 gallon grow bag!

 

[ETXfigs]

A very small ube haul, but they'll make for lovely slips for next spring. When fingers crossed I'll be able to grow them in ground instead of in one 10 gallon grow bag!

I'm going to save a few of mine for next spring too. I originally paid $3.46 to start these last spring but I can use some of these to start the growing next spring, so that original $3.46 will pay for every year from here on out if I save a few every year.

 

[StrangeCharmSam]

That's my plan too! Buy once, grow indefinitely!

 

[89s rule]

I'm going to save a few of mine for next spring too. I originally paid $3.46 to start these last spring but I can use some of these to start the growing next spring, so that original $3.46 will pay for every year from here on out if I save a few every year.

Next time just use a sweet potato from the grocery store. You'll save some $. Bought a good bit this week, local store had them for 33 cents per pound.