PIx. Sweet potatoes.

Lou from Wi. · Sep 9, 2012

Larry: Here is pictures of our sweet potatoes, planted in Late july -early August. 3.1/2lb is the largest one. shows rapid growth . Solid,not woody . Wife gonna can em except real small ones. Our German Shephard(sp) loves vegies. This is our first attempt to grow sweet taters. Still got green peppers comming. Son & WIFE just pickes a sack of em and more comming. Gave over (now)450-500 lbs of regular potatoes. Not counting what I ate lol. Hard to realize the size of em all. Regards LOU.

Old Iowa · Sep 9, 2012

Lou they look nice. I saw in an earlier posting that you are putting manure on your strawberries. If you are doing the garden then watch and don't use much where you ground pants are going to be. The manure will put too much nitrogen into the soil for potatoes. They will not be as good if grown slower.

SweetFeet · Sep 9, 2012

Lou in WI,

Great looking sweet potatoes. Makes me think of fried sweet potato fries.

We also like a mix of sweet and white potatoes fried in olive oil, along with some onion and green pepper diced. Just a touch of salt and some Cayenne pepper to season.

Lou from Wi. · Sep 9, 2012

Old Iowa :Thanks for the reply. The ground held year OLD COMPOSTED MANURE. We don't dare venture with strawberries.lol. Way to many chip monks. Every thing we harvested from our garden was just wonderful . corn, spuds. melons.onions, peppers tomato's,potatoes,broccoli, spinach, cabbage(2 kinds,Purple and green)Radishes,So much bounty, we gave lots away, still some thing are still growing. Our garden at the first place we built on the lake shore, I hauled in a truck load of fresh cow manure, straight from the barn, and worked it into the ground(clay soil)and planted garden soon after, plowing and tilling.Produce came on strong, we gave lots away there also.Lake watering helped. I never worry about manure except I don't use hog, sheep,turkey or chicken.Burns a plant in no time plus ground water contamination. This garden is OUTSTANDING in it's produce production,and somewhat larger then our first.I have never seen sweet potatoes this big. I like em candied (brown sugar) at thanks giving and Christmas. Again, thanks for the reply. regards LOU.

Lou from Wi. · Sep 9, 2012

SweetFeet,
Sounds good, I just might try that.
Thanks,
Lou

Traditional Farmer · Sep 9, 2012

They shouldn't be splitting like that.

guido · Sep 9, 2012

Hello Lou from Wi

You never had fries from them tators?
Well........ you have to try them for sure.
LOOKING GOOD!
Guido.

john in la · Sep 9, 2012

I would say use those in a sweet syrup yam canning recipe.
Sweet potatoes are suppose to be cured for 10 days to 3 weeks depending on what temperature you cure them at because they are not sweet when dug.
But those are never going to survive the curing time without rotting because of all the splits.

See my other post I just made under crop talk about sweet potatoes.

http://www.ytmag.com/cgi-bin/viewit.cgi?bd=using&th=29844

Dick2 · Sep 9, 2012

Just yesterday wife made mashed potatos and mashed sweet potatos mixed together about 50-50.

Tasted real good.

JerryS · Sep 9, 2012

Tater pie!

mazemeister · Sep 9, 2012

why can them? we put them in cardboard boxes and after curing, just keep above 55F. We're still using last year's crop.

Anonymous-0 · Sep 9, 2012

Uneven soil moisture or alternately dry then wet will cause splitting of the skins.

Lou from Wi. · Sep 9, 2012

John. Wife is eating one now.I tasted it and it's sure sweet. Got one on the range cooking now. Gonna look on the internet for sweet potato growers advice. We'll see what the experts say. LOU.

Lou from Wi. · Sep 9, 2012

tgis is the same advice as we recieved with our plants.
LOU
poke here

john in la · Sep 9, 2012

And that may work in the north but is not the rule for varities grown in the south. Sorry if I miss led you by quoting southern pratices.
Since LSU does research on farm production potatoes I tend to believe them.

Quote.................
Sweet potatoes are not very sweet or moist when first dug. It will take six to eight weeks before they will have the sweet, moist taste and texture desired when baked. Freshly harvested potatoes don’t bake well, but they can be candied or used in pies or casseroles.
Louisiana State University Agricultural Center

larry@stinescorners · Sep 9, 2012

really nice Lou!

Mike in Mn. · Sep 9, 2012

Do the same thing, try throwing some fresh carrots in the mix also!!

SweetFeet · Sep 10, 2012

Mike in MN,

Mmmm. Carrots sounds good. Will try it.

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