It was relatively cool this morning, so I thought it would be a good time to clean out the greenhouse and start getting it ready for fall planting in a couple of weeks.
I grew my own sweet potato plants this year. What you do is put some sweet potatoes, that have not been treated to prevent sprouting, down into some nice loose soil and keep them watered. Here in Indiana I do that the 1st of May. Then at the end of May you can pull off the little plants and transplant them outside.
After I used them all, I just left the seed potatoes in place. It never occurred to me that they would make more sweet potatoes. I was pulling out the huge and vigorous vines to put into the compost pile when lo and behold out comes this behemoth! It weighs in at 5# 2.4 oz.
I exclaimed, "Well, for heaven's sake!"
Why don't you all come for dinner and I'll make sweet potato pie. :)
OH MY GOODNESS!!!!! I would love to come for sweet tater pie, maybe you can feed all of blogland with that one, LOL!
ReplyDeleteHoly cow...talk about the mother of all sweet potatoes! Let us know how many pies you cranked out with that one. LOL
ReplyDeleteWell that's a biggen. Is your local fair over? If not maybe you can enter this thing. How funny. Its as big as you are.
ReplyDeleteYep, the local fair is over. :)
ReplyDeleteHoly crow that thing is big! Do you think it's still ok to eat, or do you think all of it's sugar have turned to starch?
ReplyDeleteI'll see when I cook it!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I had a yukon gold about that size once.
ReplyDeleteWow! I wonder what the largest ones that have ever been grown weighed.
ReplyDeleteThis is awesome! My kids love the picture. Shad has been telling everyone about the "HUGE" potato.
ReplyDeleteThat sure makes me smile!
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