I have been growing these from spuds and slips since early spring, soon it will be time to harvest the new spuds underground. Looking forward to it as I used 100% hardwood chips for their soil. So digging these spuds out I hope should be easy. Another media I have grown these in the past is hay. And that was very easy to harvest the spuds. But my farmer contact ran out of old hay to let me collect. So I am back to using hardwood chips I get from a local tree removal company. So curious to see how the hardwood chips work out for getting to the spuds. Really amazed with how few bugs munch on the sweet potato leaves, curious to see how affected the underground spuds will be when I harvest.
One of the two raised beds has a wire structure going over to the top, giving the sweet potato vines a double level for growth. I can see the lower level is already forming some yellow leaves, soon enough the upper level will be as well as they are newer growth.
Waiting for the frost to show up before I am really focused on pulling them up. With these kind of harvests the longer I can wait the better. I think the potato plants will be producing all the way up the freeze when the leaves fall off. Or whenever the plant feels its right to drop the leaves. I talk about my two raised beds in this video. One of them I used slips and the other I used spuds. I did not grow the slips very long so I may need to give them another try next year but much longer this time around. The spuds I cut up and put in the ground did great but I would rather use slips if I could.
The leaves have been tasty, I munch on them as I check on the plant. I should harvest the leaves just before I harvest the spuds and make use of them. I probably have hundreds of leaves so not sure what I will do with all of them. I can always use them for chop and drop gardening. But I will cross that bridge when I get there.
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