Sweet potato success
Posted November 29, 2010 at 2:06 pm by carrie
About 4 months ago I took a sprouting sweet potato and buried it in the ground — which is the wrong way to plant a sweet potato — but crazily enough, it started sprouting a giant plant.
I’d read online that when the plant died, the potatoes were ready to dig up.
So I waited.
The plant thrived.
A friend suggested that instead of potatoes, maybe the top of the plant was all that was growing. Possibly.
I waited some more.
Then over the weekend, the plant froze and I dug it up and found….
A lot of potatoes.
Digging them up was like a treasure hunt. Some looked frightening, some looked delicious, but regardless — I’d say my sweet potato planting was a success!
November 30th, 2010 at 9:13 pm
Excellent! Are they delicious? How much space did the plant take up? It would be fun to have a potato plant (sweet or regular!).
November 30th, 2010 at 10:45 pm
I’m not sure if they are delicious yet — they are still sitting in the tub pictured — I have high hopes.
The plant took up about 4 square feet of space. It was kind of vine-like. Apparently you’re supposed to plant them in loose soil — mine was hard as a rock — so who knows how big it could have gotten!
December 1st, 2010 at 1:07 pm
You making me fries?