Teaching Garden Update: Sweet Potato Harvest

💜Who's harvesting sweet potatoes? Check out the beautiful Hawaiian variety of sweet potatoes we harvested @zilkerbotanicalgarden this last community workday. One was shaped like a human heart! 💜

Last winter, we showed you two different ways of growing slips, the soil method being the most effective. We grew about 100 slips from two sweet potatoes.

The slips were ready to plant in April, after the last frost.

Check out our harvesting video from fall 2020 with long-time member David Kraemer invited us to his neighborhood traffic calming circle where he grew sweet potatoes!! 🍠 He showed us how to know when to harvest, how to cure for long storage and he even gives some of his favorite resources for growing veggies in Central Texas. 

We will be definitely be saving some of these tubers to grow slips next year and do more giveaways! You can start slips in January or February!