Do you rememberthis postwhere Kerri distressed about her perfumed potatoes wilt ?
My Sweet Potatoes are Wilting and have yellowish Leaves !
Good tidings . Kerri kept growing and cease up with a nice take :
She writes in a late e-mail :
“ Thank you so much for your supporter ! I ’m extremely excited to uprise my second crop ! Last yr , I planted the teddy on June 3 and glean on October 8 . I institute 11 slips in a 4×4 bed . ( Of of course the vine spill outside the seam , take in 18 ” of amazing soil on all side of that seam ! But there were no white potato vine outside the 4×4 seam . )
The potatoes were yummy and we eat on them all during the fall . On Christmas day , we mashed the final bit for the menage dinner party . The minuscule ones were middling smashing mashed . :)
Anyway , here are my questions for you :
1 . Why are some so Brobdingnagian and some so little ? I remember it might have been too many slips in too small a space , thus crowding the potatoes , but I watched your recent video and you planted a short ton of slips together . Then I thought it might have been that I harvested too early , but I had a couple of super Brobdingnagian murphy and I ’m afraid they would have been lusus naturae if I waited .
2 . When should I embed my sweet potatoes this year ? Is early June a good fourth dimension ? I think in the past tense you told me you commonly reap in November . If I plant them in late March , can I harvest in the beginning ? ( and perchance plant a second bed in June or July for fall ! )
3 . Will mellisonant potato rise in sandy soil ? Maybe I can put them in the sand with some weed and organic cloth and let them be some of the living roots in the ground like the Natural Farmer apportion .
I appreciate your service and expertise in everything gardening ! I ’m voraciously reading your Compost Everything Christian Bible justly now . I am desperately stress to become some backbone into soil ! :D
Thank you so much for sharing your cognition . I jazz being capable to answer the absolute majority of my gardening question by using the search bar on your site . ”
Thank you , Kerri , I appreciate it .
Let me take the head one at a prison term .
Why are some sweet potatoes huge and others little?
Short answer :
This is just the room sweet murphy grow .
Long answer :
We ’re used to see to it unfermented potatoes in like size of it stacked up in supermarket displays . Farmer do n’t want huge white potato vine or tiny ones , so those are pick .
The USDA break sweet white potato into different grades .
For example , “ U.S. excess # 1 ” angelic white potato rule are :
