We had something strange happen with our sweet potatoes this year. Although it was a bad year verging on awful for many crops, the sweet potatoes in the main field did extremely well and grew much larger than we expected them to. I put the glove in the opening photo to give you a sense of scale.
Speaking of scales, here's evidence of our largest tuber so far, at over 4 and a half pounds:
But bear in mind we've only dug 10% of the field, so we could top that.
And here's a proud farmer posing with the harvest from a single plant:
The only problem is that most people are unused to such large unit of sweet, starchy goodness and feel intimidated. I assure you, these sweet potatoes don't bite and are thoroughly unthreatening. Nor does the increased size imply and loss in tenderness or flavor. They aren't tough or fiberous. They are just well grown. If they are too large for what you wanted to do with them, I recommend cutting them in half. Also you should know that they have not yet been cured and so won't keep for more than a few weeks. Do not refrigerate!
Other than the sweet potato harvest we harvested the last of the eggplant, and tore out the plants, in preparation for planting a winter cover crop. And we actually had two sunny days in a row!
Bye for now.
John
