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~~~Sweet Potato Harvest~~~
Aug 6, 2007 | 1:33 PM PST
Tag: sweet potatoes

I stopped by the sweet potatoes yesterday.  I knelt down and pulled apart the vines near one of the plants and pulled back some soil.  I was very excited to see a big orange potato!!!  I went inside and asked my husband if he would help me dig some or all of them.  Who could resist digging for a wonderful surprise?  Not me, the ones you can't see are the most exciting to harvest.  He dug them out mostly by hand.  I helped pull back the  vines out of his way.  I only planted the slips from one potato, that was seven slips.  The vines filled to overflowing a 10ft x 4ft box, we kept having to put wandering pieces of vine back in.   We were going to fill in the box with soil this spring but didn't get that far.  I think we got alot from just one potato.  It took 100 to 110 days to mature.  I will definetly be planting sweet potatoes again next spring.  And SWEET POTATOES, its whats for dinner!!!

~My first look at the sweet potatoes~

~Some more potatoes showing themselves~

~A couple of the bigger ones, the lighter one has been washed~

~Here is most of the larger ones~