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Thursday, February 13, 2014

The Gift that Keeps on Giving



Although my sweet potato harvest this year was larger than I expected, every other week sweet keep potatoes sprouting up.


Purple Sweet Potatoes keep sprouting up where the vines were growing.

 I did not mean for this to happen! 


I nearly tripped over this one!


Oh well. The influx of purple sweet potatoes has been added to our soups, chilies, and many other things I cook. Sometimes I just cook them up and eat them plain or with salt. Yum!

 
This picture is from today. Why can't the vines all produce within my garden?
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4 comments:

  1. DonnaFebruary 15, 2014 at 5:45 AM

    I wish we had the season to grow these...love sweets and would love to try the purple ones.

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    1. JayFebruary 17, 2014 at 8:51 AM

      Dear Donna,

      Thanks for your response. Can you grow regular purple potatoes where you live? There are so many varieties I can only imagine they make a short season purple potato.

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 15, 2014 at 6:34 PM

    I am thinking about attempting to grow them myself next year. My friend has some kumara going nuts in tubs and as we don't get frost much here on Serendipity Farm I figure we might be up for a few sweet potato invaders ourselves. I would give them their own bed so that they could just keep on keeping on if they liked. I am a great fan of perennial veggies (even if they are only perennial because I omitted to dig them all up ;) ) Cheers for the delicious share :)

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    1. JayFebruary 17, 2014 at 8:56 AM

      Dear RoadtoSerendipity,

      Thank you for your comment!

      I grew up in the bay area (Cupertino). I am sure that Sweet potatoes would do well there. Purple varieties are not quite as marketable as the orange vareities but I do believe they will be as we continue to develop them. Have you happened to look at any of the cucumber-melon varieties I grow. I bet they would do very well over there in Montery!

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