Beginner Gardening: My Sweet Potato Experiment, 0 by jannz2

jannz2 wrote:
Hi Everybody,

I thought I would share the results of my sweet potato experiment.
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OK - so last winter I had one ol’ rotten looking sweet potato that had started having shoots on it. I thought…”hmmmnnn.. I wonder if I can grow these..??..” So I took it to my mud room staging area for my plant stuff – and forgot about it.

Come spring I found it again…and the shoots were still sorta’ green. [???...interesting...???] So I looked up HOW you’re supposed to plant potatoes from a ‘shooted potato’ .[basically you cut out each of the “eyes” that have shoots and root them in water]. Well after I did that I planted them in one of my small raised beds and just left them alone basically…but hoping that I’d have some sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving.

Well my wish came true. That one ol’ rotten sweet potato produced 18 ½ pounds of NEW sweet potatoes. I just dug them up. It was like digging for treasure. Some were the hugest potatoes I’ve ever seen. The skin is so thin….like “new potatoes”.

I cooked up some of the 'fingerlings' by cutting them into cubes then sautéing them in coconut oil, with a little salt & pepper and some 'allspice'. YUMMO!