Blessings Darlings!
An early heat wave is going to be starting here tomorrow. Temperatures will be in the 90's and the humidity will be high for 5 days. Therefore, I did some preparations to help reduce my electricity use during that time.
That means that today I totally caught up on the ironing, so I won't iron at all during the heat wave (the Spawn will, since he didn't iron his work clothes. His choice). The Spawn made blueberry muffins, and pizza for dinner tonight - we won't bake desserts during the heat wave, and will grill and/or pressure cook dinners. Bread and rolls are about to go into the oven, so we won't bake those during the hot days. We don't need the loaf bread at the moment, so that will go into the freezer for a few days.
Late spring allows me to do this. The hot weather isn't unrelenting ... nor is the cold weather. A little preparation, a little care to work with, not against, nature goes a long way right now.
Frondly, Fern
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Purple Sweet Potatoes
Blessings, Darlings!
I removed all the sweet potato vines from my garden. They go into compost unlike the tomato vines which, due to risk of blight, don't get composted. While removing the vines I found yet MORE potatoes. Bringing my harvest up to about 18 pounds. I'm VERY happy with those numbers, given I had NO idea what I was doing and planted only 3 slips 'lasagna' style over solid clay soil. These are, after all, a crop that loves SANDY soil, the opposite of what I have!
So, I hear you asking, how are they for eating? Remember - I've grown these in the wrong soil and in a drought/heat wave, so YMMV. Not as sweet as most orange sweet potatoes to me, and while the skin on most of them is thin ... just under the skin is a fair amount of fiber which can be nasty. But I'm sure that I'll learn how to deal with that better soon.
I expect that the leaves are edible, too, but haven't tried them yet. The deer LOVE them. I let the deer in at the end of the season, so they could help remove the vines. Working WITH nature rocks!
So, again - nice flavor, GREAT color, GREAT yield.
Frondly, Fern
I removed all the sweet potato vines from my garden. They go into compost unlike the tomato vines which, due to risk of blight, don't get composted. While removing the vines I found yet MORE potatoes. Bringing my harvest up to about 18 pounds. I'm VERY happy with those numbers, given I had NO idea what I was doing and planted only 3 slips 'lasagna' style over solid clay soil. These are, after all, a crop that loves SANDY soil, the opposite of what I have!
So, I hear you asking, how are they for eating? Remember - I've grown these in the wrong soil and in a drought/heat wave, so YMMV. Not as sweet as most orange sweet potatoes to me, and while the skin on most of them is thin ... just under the skin is a fair amount of fiber which can be nasty. But I'm sure that I'll learn how to deal with that better soon.
I expect that the leaves are edible, too, but haven't tried them yet. The deer LOVE them. I let the deer in at the end of the season, so they could help remove the vines. Working WITH nature rocks!
So, again - nice flavor, GREAT color, GREAT yield.
Frondly, Fern
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