Comments on: Good Thing I Looked

By: admin

admin — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:14:21 +0000

LOL…I just went by what the one article said. Since the potatoes were growing, I figured they knew what they were talking about. We’ll see what happens. Mine may rot just like yours did, who knows. Next year, I plan on getting started at the proper time of year and doing things the way they should be done. Just didn’t work out that way this year. So I’ll start the slips much earlier, the right way!

By: Annie's Granny

Annie's Granny — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:29:58 +0000

Everything I Google says pointy end down. Yours look like the pointy end was up…the ones that grew well for me were neither up nor down, but completely buried in a trench in the garden!

By: Annie's Granny

Annie's Granny — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:27:00 +0000

Actually, I had planned on using the bottom of the ugly black compost barrel for sweet potatoes, but after setting it up, I decided I just didn’t want to look at it! I still might try it behind the shed, if I can get Mr. H out there to remove the volunteer mulberry tree and three big lilacs.

By: huskyslug

huskyslug — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:07:42 +0000

That’s crazy. It’s been a little chilly here 60′s and 70′s… LOL

By: admin

admin — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:58:50 +0000

Down in the RGV, in Harlingen. And it was 100 degrees, Accuweather, the local tv station, and the thermometer in hubby’s truck all said so. I couldn’t believe it. Hated it, too.

By: huskyslug

huskyslug — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:35:06 +0000

Just wondering where you’re at in Texas. I live just southwest of Houston and it wasn’t anywhere near 100 degrees.

By: sb158

sb158 — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 05:17:59 +0000

I can imagine, judging from the vast number of plants you’ve mentioned already. Have you thought about an SWC for the sweet potatoes, or is every square ince of ground space already spoken for?

By: sb158

sb158 — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 05:11:45 +0000

Apparently it makes a difference, according to this one article. One end of the sweet potato has a pointy little tip on it, and the other is more blunt, I think maybe where it was attached to the root. Makes sense, I guess, when you think about it (not that I ever did think about it before), that the root end would root, and leaves grow out of the other end. Don’t know for sure, but we’ll see what happens.

And thanks for the nice comment on the blog. Appreciate any nice comments I can get, after all the cussing and frustration it took to get it working!

By: engineeredgarden

engineeredgarden — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:21:01 +0000

First of all, great blog! I can tell that you have spent alot of time on creating it.
Now…I didn’t know that the potato had to be inserted into the water a certain way. I’m about to get one from the store and start mine. Can you tell me which end should stick up?

By: Annie's Granny

Annie's Granny — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:54:44 +0000

I was going to plant sweet potatoes this year. I threw two rotting ones into the garbage one day last year, then buried them (trench composted) in the garden. They both grew into beautiful plants that I potted and brought in the house. My daughter had instructions to come once every two weeks to water them and snip the vines if they were overtaking the house, but she let them die. I tried to start another (water in glass method) in AZ a couple of months ago, but it just rotted. I think I must have had the wrong end up Now I have so many plants started that I don’t have room for sweet potatoes!

Granny