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RBWells@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Nice! Our season ends a lot earlier than now but did well with the Stokes Purple this year.
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voxthefox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
Nice! I just baked a sweet potato pie yesterday, though sadly mine just came from a supermarket :(
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gingersaffronapricat@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I hope it came out perfectly. No shame in using store bought. Can’t grow everything every year.
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digdig@piefed.social 6 days ago
I hear the smaller, more new are tastier, Is that true?
I’d roast them or make chips, yum
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gingersaffronapricat@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Tbh I’ve necer prepared small sweet potatoes before so I am going to learn what they taste like this year. Chips sound like a fun experiment.
Gil, The Shitposter Of Ages@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
please do post to let us know! I’m interested to learn the results.
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mushroommunk@lemmy.today 6 days ago
What’s sweet potatoes precious?
I’ve got some on the counter I’m gonna casserole with some oats on top 🤤
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zd9@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Looks great! What kind are they?
I just harvested ours yesterday, and sadly the soil had too much clay still, so all of them were tiny and very thin. It’s sad because this is my third year of doing them, and I added so many additives to make the soil looser, and still it’s too compacted.
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RBWells@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I always do sweet potato in a fabric pot! So much easier to find them at the end of the season and you could amend the soil in the pot.
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futurefossil@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Have you ever thought about a cover crop for the clay?
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zd9@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Yep! I just planted Austrian winter peas and fava beans as a cover crop in that area. Also when I dug out the sweet potatoes I threw out any bits of clay and soil that were too compacted.
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gingersaffronapricat@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I’m not sure what kind they are. I picked up sweet potatoes in the spring perported to be from a nearby farn. I figured if they were grown near my town, they should do well enough for me.
Sorry you’re struggling with clay. I’ve been growing mine in raised beds. I think I put in two parts compost, two parts mulch, one part pearlite. I have one bed that was about a foot deep and it did ok. But the plants really seemed to love the two foot deep area. Second year growing sweet potatoes and first year giving them more depth.
What kind of amendments have you been adding? Are you noticing any progress towards better sweet potatoes?
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zd9@lemmy.world 6 days ago
We just built a bunch of 4x8 raised beds this year, but used them for other plants, so I’ll be doing sweet potatoes there next year for sure. We do a similar mixture as you, with 1/3 compost, 1/6 medium perlite, 1/6 large vermiculite, and 1/3 coco coir (environmentally friendly alternative to peat moss).
The clay soil area had some of the mixture above, plus local soil, plus amendments from last year.