Posts Tagged ‘sweet potatoes’

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  Sweet potato harvest!

  July 5th, 2012 | My Harvests | Melanie | 2 Comments

  I have been so excited to harvest my sweet potatoes. I discovered that the best time is four weeks after the first flower blooms. The first flower bloomed about June 5th, so July 4th seemed like the perfect day! I was thrilled to get some big ones! All the tiny little ones were from the […]

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  Sweet potatoes

  May 22nd, 2012 | My Garden | Melanie | 2 Comments

  I have never planted sweet potato before, but I learned that you can’t just plant a chunk of sweet potato in the ground like a regular potato.  A sweet potato “slip” is planted and then it takes root and grows the sweet potatoes under the ground.  Several months ago I started my sweet potato slip. […]

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