Propagation: Ornamental Sweet Potatoes, 1 by randbponder

randbponder wrote:
Yeah, Jeanette, you got it right, the B is for Barb. The ponder came from the DG computer, because we have a pond by our patio.
Incidentally at present there are no fish in it. That is due to an issue of somebody coming in and taking half of them. I am almost positive that it won't happen again. I believe I confronted the guilty party. Of course he denied it but he has had a change of attitude since then.
The rest of my fish are safe in another friends pond at present.
Nuff of that.
Guys - I see frost on the lawn. My thermometer only showed a low of 34, so it wasn't a killing frost. 20 miles away in Sioux City, they recorded 31.
That picture, to me showed they weren't quite ready to be dug- up. I
I will have to see how much difference a couple rains and a little more time made.
I scraped away the side of one of the hills of some Beauregards that I planted in another patch and found, the extra time made a big difference there. I pulled six nice ones from there. I'M sure there more as I only took from about a third of the way around.
Jeanette; I brought every thing in last night that I could. The kitchen is a mess. LOL I also brought in the begonias.
I'll be able to set most everything out again for a while but first dig the rest of about 70 some hills of SPs. I will check the leaves on the OSPs to see if I can leave them a while longer..
Anyway here is the picture of 1 hill of the bush type Vardamans.
They are on the tailgate, of our S10. That is DWs hand holding the largest one of that hill.
Russ.