Got one of their random variety packs as well as a couple we were curious to try specifically:
-Kuwahi (the really pretty purple leaf/stems in the lower left pot)
-Dingess Pink/purple (the ones with the slight pink in their stems that almost blend into the dirt currently in the farthest bag)
-Nancy Hall USDA (the green stemmed variety in the furthest growbag)
-Camote Rosita and Virginia Red are the two ivy leafed varieties in the middle bag I have way too close together since they are both supposed to be “semi bush" types,
-Oklahoma Purple is the very green leaves in the bag with Kuwahi (these were my own slips from potatoes I grew last year)
-the 15g tree pot has a couple of Delaware Purple and a few Nam Hai both varieties I grew last year and made my own slips this year.
I got a tuber of ‘Avoyelles’, a new, early-maturing sweet potato release from LSU, last fall, from a friend who grew it last year. I’m trialing it here in the garden this year.
Another vote in support of Jing Orange okra. It has done well for me here in KY. Good production, and even if you ‘miss’ a pod here and there when picking, even though they will be really big the next day or two days later, they usually stay tender enough to eat.
My Walmart Sweet Potato plants are starting to bloom and there are buds all over the vines. This is probably nothing new to the ones who have grown these before. It does look like morning glory.
I sold off my extra sweet potato slips and all sold fast except literally no one wanted white sweetpotatoes. So i guess a note if anyone does any backyard nurserying
Sheesh. You’d think that would be the best seller.. I mean even if you want Colorful sweet potatoes, a little food coloring and you could have green, teal, blue, pink, etc and not even have to “settle" for “normal” colors like yellow orange and purple.
White sweet potatoes usually are good for sweet potato fries. The way to solve the problem is to ask them to try a few sweet potato fries and see if they want to grow them.
My sweet potato slips from Sandhill arrived on Monday looking rough. I’m sure it’s not helping that we are in the middle of a heatwave with no rain. We have them in the ground and are keeping them moist. I’m hoping for the best. Will try to update in about a week.
Farmgirl, you don’t have anything to worry about. Sweetpotatoes are among the 3 most heat tolerant vegetables I grow. If the plants have even a little bit of green left, they will take root and grow.
It is mostly a waste to plant an entire sweet potato. They may grow 10 or 15 sprouts each of which could have been separately planted making a crop from each plant. With only one spot to grow in, the crop will be at most twice as much as the amount a single sprout could have makde.
I wrote somewhere last year about how we just planted slices for the first few years we grew sweets. Works great. Better than slips, I think. We do a combo now solely because growing slips in a cup in the kitchen is a source of wonder. I usually plant the whole sweet potato as well once I’m tired of removing slips.
