One surprising and delightful result from our 2023 garden season was our success with growing a sweet potato plant in a big pot. It all started with one lonely sweet potato that was forgotten and had started to sprout on the kitchen table last spring.
Bert planted it in a huge pot by the patio and it wasn’t long before the plant made an appearance.
It survived munching by the wandering bunnies and finally made blossoms.
A few days ago, Bert dumped the whole pot into the wheel barrow. What a surprise! The whole pot was packed with roots and small sweet potatoes. Unfortunately, I was so excited to check it out I forgot to take a picture of it! Impressive!
We worked at ripping the mass of roots apart…and it was a solid mass! Here is what I saved from the roots. There were another two-dozen small sweet potatoes hanging from the roots…they were cute not worth the trouble to save.
Basically, I had one large, ordinary-looking sweet potato (on the right) and about a dozen weird shaped potatoes that I think I can clean up, cut into chunks and boil or roast.
When sliced into rounds they roasted quickly. The skins were thin and helped to make them crunchy!
So, that was a fun addition to the garden this year. Maybe next year we should plant a sweet potato in the fenced garden by the patio so it could spread out! We’ll see!
Oh my gosh!!! That is so awesome!!! You’re making me super excited to dig into mine at the end of October.
Great pictures too!
Thank you,
Cindy