Sweet Potatoes

You have to love getting ‘free’ produce from the compost . Looks like you got a good crop. My DD also always has things growing in her compost heap….pumpkins, squash, etc. Saves on garden space.

-- 'To plant a Garden is to believe in Tomorrow'

You have fantastic harvest of the sweet potatoes. We love them and prepare various recipes from them. One which I love is roasting whole potato with skin in coal or wood fire. Another is to cut them into round slices, roast them in clarified butter or butter till tender and add scraped coconut and sugar until sugar dissolves. No water is added in this recipe. If you like you can skin the potato before slicing. In one more you grate them with skin, roast them in butter with cumin seeds. Steam them until tender and add salt, pounded groundnut and chilipowder or pepper according to taste. Serve hot.

Sharad

Sharad

-- Bagwan-- “If someone feels that they had never made a mistake in their life, then it means they have never tried a new thing in their life”.-Albert Einstein

I love sweet potatoes. Pam & Harold, I like the idea of using the containers to grow them. I might just try that this year. How often do you water the large containers? I presume that they are in full sun.

Thanks, Sharad for offering alternative methods of food preparation using sweet potatoes. They sound good.

-- jroot ....... Southern Ontario .......... grow zone 5A ...................."Gardening is an exercise in optimism." ....... . . Author Unknown

Jroot – Pam gets sweet potato “slips” from Gurney’s, and here in Fla we start the planting in March/April. They are not in full sun and are actually up against the north side of the house. I’m not certain if all potatoes vine, but these certainly do. The first season, we were shocked to see them growing up the side of the house, around the outside light, the gutter, the TV cable… The second year we built trellises for them to wind around. As for the watering, PJ tells me that she waters twice a week depending upon the rain that the good Lord me have already supplied. Looking at the date I took the photos, I see that we pulled them up on Oct 31st.

-- Pam grows 'em - I cook 'em...... Melbourne, Fl

Here in Canada, it won’t be as hot in full sun as it is in your sunny Florida, so I am thinking that that is where I would put the pots. Based on your description, they really want to travel. Good to hear about the watering cycle. Thanks.

Those sweet potatoes are making me hungry. I don’t think I posted a recipe for President Obama’s favourite sweet potatoe pie. I will do so in the recipe forum.

-- jroot ....... Southern Ontario .......... grow zone 5A ...................."Gardening is an exercise in optimism." ....... . . Author Unknown

What kind of containers did you use for your taters? I have planted them in the garden before and they tend to take over.

Ezgnann –
Pam has used plastic buckets such as 35 or 20 gal barrels that have been cut down. Hers are about 18 – 24 inches. She also uses some fiber buckets that she got from Gardener’s Supply Company – here’s that link to their potato grow bags

-- Pam grows 'em - I cook 'em...... Melbourne, Fl

Oops, I don’t see the link.

-- jroot ....... Southern Ontario .......... grow zone 5A ...................."Gardening is an exercise in optimism." ....... . . Author Unknown

Great job growing those sweet potatoes. Pam! Look how many you grew!

-- "To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." M. Gandhi

Jroot and others linking for the alusive link for the potato grow bags…. hate it when I do that!!

http://www.gardeners.com/Potato-Bin/GrowBags_Cat,36-629RS,default,cp.html

-- Pam grows 'em - I cook 'em...... Melbourne, Fl