Harvesting Sweet Potatoes

This summer I decided to give sweet potatoes a bigger piece of real estate in

my garden.  I like the flowers, my wife likes the potatoes.  I grew them last year

as an experiment, we had a store bought sweet potato that started to bolt. So, like

any good gardener geek, I planted it.  We got a few potatoes but the best surprise

were the flowers.  See video click here.  This year I planted two full beds and a

corner bed with the little seed potatoes from last year.  I trained the vines up

the fence to maximize growing space. As you can see below, we got quite a

few sweet potatoes and plenty of seed potatoes for next summer.

So one left over store bought sweet potato has now become several meals

and I still have two beds to dig.

Back yard gardening is no joke, it's good eats.