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Garden Master
I had my dad come over for dinner tonight and decided that baked sweet potatoes would go really well with the grilled salmon and sweet corn. Ava and I thought we'd go out and dig a few from the garden and this is what we found:
Monster sweet potatoes!
Just one would feed a couple families, I'm sure. Is this normal? I grew them in a spot where we had piled a mountain of cow manure from the fairgrounds, two years ago, so it was well aged.
I hope they'll be tender. I was told not to dig them until the vines started to yellow, which are only starting just now. It was a cold summer. I didn't expect much from them.
We baked up a few of the average sized ones and they were delish with butter and salt. There are more out there. It's supposed to rain tomorrow and I'll poke around some more with the turning fork once the ground is softer. I was finding potatoes all the way under the cardboard and straw of the path between the rows and into the pepper patch. The ones in the middle were the biggest ones. I put in 9 little Beauregard plants from Walmart and never expected such a return on my dollar.
Monster sweet potatoes!
Just one would feed a couple families, I'm sure. Is this normal? I grew them in a spot where we had piled a mountain of cow manure from the fairgrounds, two years ago, so it was well aged.
I hope they'll be tender. I was told not to dig them until the vines started to yellow, which are only starting just now. It was a cold summer. I didn't expect much from them.
We baked up a few of the average sized ones and they were delish with butter and salt. There are more out there. It's supposed to rain tomorrow and I'll poke around some more with the turning fork once the ground is softer. I was finding potatoes all the way under the cardboard and straw of the path between the rows and into the pepper patch. The ones in the middle were the biggest ones. I put in 9 little Beauregard plants from Walmart and never expected such a return on my dollar.
They were delicious to eat, in spite of their size, much the same as the more modest ones.
I'm so glad to hear that I didn't ruin them by letting them go so long. That's the first year I've tried growing them, so I really didn't know what to make of them. The vines went 10 feet out in all directions and made out for a super good living mulch. The weeds didn't stand a chance!
