Monday, March 12, 2012

Harvest Monday - March 12, 2012

I'm off drinking tropical drinks in another country this Monday so no harvests today. I thought I'd show you what I put on my windowsill before I left for my trip. I got them from Russo's a vegetable store. (And don't worry by townhouse mates are watering them when needed so they won't die if they start to sprout.)

These are the old wizened men, looking out into the yard. According to one of the extension services in New England (I forget if it is NH or ME) if you buy an unlabeled sweet potato in the US it is most likely Beauregard and it is a good variety for New England.

These are my young women gabbing among themselves. They were labeled Garnet. So at least I know the variety. What I really wanted was a Georgia Jet as they are very fast maturing and produce very well in the north, but I couldn't find them. I might have to buy a few slips at some point. I'll see later. In fact if my slip production doesn't work (it is the first time I've ever tried doing this) then I still have plenty of time to put in an order for slips. If I end up really loving a variety I can just pot up a vine and bring it inside for the winter. I'm terrible with houseplants, but one can always try.

Harvest Monday is a day to show off your harvests, how you are saving your harvest, or how you are using your harvest. If you have a harvest you want to show off, add your name and link to Mr Linky below.

21 comments:

  1. Have a tropical drink, or 2, for me!

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  2. I hope you are having a great time on your vacation!

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  3. I'm growing sweet potatoes for the first time this year. So far I have a lot of vine but no idea if there's anything happening underground. Still its very exciting, or will be when its time to dig them up.

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  4. I haven't had much luck getting sweet potatoes started, but these look promising!

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  5. I have something very similar on my windowsill at the moment, although I have some vine growth now, just at the wrong time (in Australia) to be planting the things. Really should have planned that better!

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  6. Love your wonderful ladies and gentlemen. I am thinking of growing sweet potatoes but not this year. I have started the vine to put in flower pots many times but always get side tracked and don't use them If you like a particular kind just save a few from your harvest and do the same with them as you are with these.

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  7. Fun group of "folks' on your windowsill! I wish our summers were hotter - I would love to try growing sweet potatoes but they really would be dissappointed in our mild summers.

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  8. A robust sweet potato plant was the only "houseplant" we could afford when we were first married. A sunny window in Laramie, Wyoming was all it needed to cheer us through the long winter.

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  9. Thanks for the idea! Lovely with homegrown sweetpotatoes! Have a nice vacation! I´ll start posting as soon as I get some harvest! :) Mia

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  10. I hope you are enjoying your vacation :) I really want to try sweet potatoes too but only have room for a few this year. The minimums for slips are high as are the prices so I may go the grocery store route as well.

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  11. I am sure you are having a great vacation. Your sweet potatoes enjoy looking out the windows.

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  12. I used to grow loads of sweets in TX, had the perfect sandy acid soil for them. Have had no success at all here in the desert. However I have found this info page http://www.sandhillpreservation.com/pages/sweetpotato_catalog.html and I've made some of these mistakes so that is probably why I haven't had good luck yet. I'm going to start some slips from a store potato and try growing them this way. If that works then next year I want to get some of Sandhill's different colored ones; I love the purple ones like Norma has.

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  13. We're trying the same thing this year. Wish you well in the tropics and your sweet potatoes too!

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  14. Sweet potatoes are something I have never grown. We have a pretty short growing season around here and noone in the family likes them so I guess they will probably never make it into our garden.

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  15. Nothing for us to harvest in March. We're planting!

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  16. I'm up to 57 lbs of harvested produce so far this year, including some yams from last summer's planting. I still have one pot of yams left to harvest. Hope they haven't gotten woody. I grow them in my driveway in grow pots.

    I've been down and out with squamous cell carcinoma--should have been an easy surgical cure but the idiot doctor gave me epinephrine (which I can't have) and sent me to the ER. Long story, see my blog post from last week. Anyway, I hope I'm back now. Enjoy your vacation.

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  17. Enjoy those tropical drinks and your vacation! I'm growing sweet potatoes for the first time this year, although I haven't started them yet. Supposedly we don't plant them here (SC) until end of April/ beginning of May. It'll be fun to try growing them!

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  18. We're trying sweet potatoes here, too...with no luck so far...I think I might have done something wrong but am not too worried since there's still time to grab a couple new potatoes form the store :-) Hope you're enjoying a fabulous vacation!

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  19. I've never tried planting sweet potatoes, only potatoes. I can't wait to see how your experiment comes out. Maybe we'll try them next year.

    We're not planting yet, though I hope to put snap peas in this weekend. I have arugula and kale growing from last year. I really should pick them!

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  20. I'm trying sweet potatoes for the first time this year. Well, I've grown the ornamental varieties we sell at work last year, but this is the first year of growing a meant-to-be-eaten variety. I'm still not sure I like them (they're not very common in Austria, so I've had no time to become used to the taste yet), but the plants are pretty, and I think they'll grow reasonably well in my balcony garden.

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