I will go ahead and admit that last year was the first year I grew sweet potatoes. I will also admit that I kicked myself all year for not having started years ago! They were so easy to grow! Beautiful, easy, prolific, healthy, and delicious. What more could you ask for in a vegetable?
Sweet Potatoes have the prettiest blooms!
This year I have big plans for my sweet potatoes. I plan to grow them all over the place. They had such lovely vines, than I see no reason not to landscape with them, so I plan to grow them in every available “landscaping” bed. Let’s face it, if I can’t eat it, I won’t tend it anyway, so I might as well plant something edible to spruce up our tired flower beds!
These were “surprise” sweet potatoes I found when cleaning out the garden bed long after the original harvest!
Sweet Potatoes from 9 plants in my square foot garden! I had the BEST time digging these up with my bare hands!
What about you, have you ever grown sweet potatoes?
We did sweet potatoes in our garden one time and they did not do well. They started off well, but never got big. They just grew to the size of pebbles. We decided not to try them again. But with you writing this post it made me think about a spot around the front of our house where we could try. If they don’t grow at least we would have pretty flowers there.
I tried Straw Bale Gardening first time in 2014. Highly recommend Joel’s book! I got 48 pounds of sweet potatoes in one ten foot run of straw bales. No Digging! No Kidding! Only dirt on them was the decomposing of the straw. Once the bales were torn apart, the old straw is being used in compost bin, some worked in other areas where soil is not so great.
We did sweet potatoes in our garden one time and they did not do well. They started off well, but never got big. They just grew to the size of pebbles. We decided not to try them again. But with you writing this post it made me think about a spot around the front of our house where we could try. If they don’t grow at least we would have pretty flowers there.
Wendy you crack me up 🙂
I tried Straw Bale Gardening first time in 2014. Highly recommend Joel’s book! I got 48 pounds of sweet potatoes in one ten foot run of straw bales. No Digging! No Kidding! Only dirt on them was the decomposing of the straw. Once the bales were torn apart, the old straw is being used in compost bin, some worked in other areas where soil is not so great.
I am totally going to try this!! Thanks for sharing!