I'm a gardener by blood and I explore things within my garden on how to have a good harvest. Since I started planting, I have the habit of recycling things that are present here in home. I'm doing this because we don't have a vast area here where I can plant. So managing the small space is a challenge to me.
This time I want to share my harvest of sweet potatoes that I planted last August. It's been four months already so I thought that it's ready to be harvested so I checked on them. While I'm checking the sack where I planted them, I can't avoid to smile because some of it's roots are big and it't indicating that it already developed sweet potatoes.
And yes you read it right. I planted them in a sack. I filled half of the sack with organic soil back then and planted some cuttings of sweet potatoes. Actually they grew fast in that type of soil I used. That's why having those organic soil really help me to grow the plants in a good state.
As you can see in the photos I began digging up those sacks with the use of a knife. I carefully did it because I don't want to damage the roots of those mother plants. I can't help myself but to smile all through out the process because I'm really happy about it.
After removing some of the soil, those big sweet potatoes came into view as you can see in the photo. They can grew more if I wanted too but I don't want it to go to waste or to be eaten by some creatures within the soil as you can see it in one of the sweet potato.
Some of it were small that's why I didn't harvest them yet and leave them there to grow more.
I harvested the second one and I got good ones just like in the first sack but I was a sad to dug one that was withering already. This is the outcome that I'm talking about if I haven't harvest those ones above. Half of the whole potato is not edible already.
After harvesting those sweet potatoes, I decided to replant it again with new cuttings aside from the ones that been a mother stem already. When I plant this one, I have the habit of making a loop at the base of the cutting. I planted 2 cuttings in each sack.
Planting Taro
After harvesting my sweet potatoes, I decide to go in my garden in the field because I will plant some gabi or taro. First I gathered some young taros that grew beside our house. Removed their leaves for them to grow fast according to my grandma. When I was digging one part of that area, I ecountered a centipede with it's babies. Look at those.
I began to plant them immediately after removing their leaves as you can see in the photo. The young taros that I gathered was not enough to fill that area that's why I will gather another set of it and plant it there.
Before we go home, we checked the chili plant of my mother in other are and we were surprised to see that it grew well despite it's dying state before. It also bore big chilis which became matured already so those ones will be the seeds to the planted next time.
Look how big it is. It's just indicating that the soil where it is planted is very rich in nutrients. My mother didn't apply any fertilizers in those chilis.
A flower caught my attention while we are on our way home. Look how beautiful it is. The bright color of it's flowers stands out that's why I noticed it. It's a normal weed from afar but when it's flower blooms, it transforms into a subject which is worth taking a picture.
That concludes my garden updates for today plus my good harvest of sweet potatoes. This is also my entry for the The Last Garden Challenge of The Year! hosted by
Thank you for reading.