The Harvest is In

After listening to a call-in radio show on sweet potato vines and strange things unearthed in the garden, I decided to pay attention to what I may find in two of my front garden urns whilst removing said vines and other annuals to plant mums.

I pulled out the vines, found many long roots and decided to dig deeper.  I removed as much soil as I could and started feeling and digging around the urns with a small garden fork.  Imagine my surprise when I uncovered a regular size potato and a few smaller ones.  In one urn, I couldn’t get the potatoes out intact as they were growing in the decorative curvature of the urn so I had to break them up to remove them.

Seeing my fancy front yard urns are great for showing off the vines but offer no room for tubers, I have already decided to plant sweet potato vines in my backyard pots where they’ll have plenty of room to get as big as they want. I am already imaging the yield a year from now. Talk about being optimistic.

You shall reap what you sow and sometimes what you didn’t realize you sowed.

Will keep you posted.