HUGE sweet potatoes. Big ol’ lunkers. It’s only been about 93 days since planting out.
One tipped the scale at 6lb 7oz. A friend of mine pointed out that her first baby was that size.
The big ones had sprouts out of the roots already.
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“One tipped the scale at 6lb 7oz. A friend of mine pointed out that her first baby was that size”
That is hilarious !
Yes , edible.
But you should be very hungry.
Or
A long slow bake, freeze. Leftovers
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I guess I just don’t want to spend the time curing them if they’re not gonna be edible.
Curing sweet potatoes is a pain in the ass in the best circumstances, (since creating the warm humid conditions needed is tedious) let alone when they’re the size of a newborn.
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I often have them that size, they are fine,
Curing ?
I just store in a attached garage area, they are good.
Too large for market sales .
Could get some googley eyes and a little blanket ?
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Hmmm. Ok. I will say I’ve found mine still taste starchy as hell three weeks out (I tried them). That was a Nancy Hall though.
These are one of the “Jewell” varieties, but I forget which.
Do you control humidity or anything? Mine have been known to shrivel if humidity is too low before the skins have hardened.
I dug the rest. They got smaller as I went farther down the bed into crappier, drier soil.
Interesting observation:
The ones in the richer, moister, more neutral pH soil at the north end of the bed produced one or two lunkers. The ones in the crappy, dry, acidic soil at the south end were smaller vines by a third, but had 3 to 7 good midsized roots. I did have a lot of losses to rot, however. A couple plants had zero usable roots.
It wasn’t that wet this year, my suspicion is wireworm damage that then let rot take hold.
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Given our weather, you probably have another 2 months the vines could grow and make more tubers. Is there a reason you decided to dig them now?
I planted mine around mid-May, so I’m just a little over 100 days on my crop. I was planning to let them go until frost, but should I be thinking of digging them now? I’m growing 2 bush types and 2 vining blue ones - Bunch Porto Rico, Vardman, Rebecca’s Purple and an unknown blue/purple I grew last year.
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I did a couple as a test, and saw they were so huge already, I didn’t want more of them to get oversized and/or crack. Some had SEVERE cracking and rot setting in already.