Sweet Potato Haul... Green Field Gardening

My pop used to grow them years ago, but this is the first time I've tried them. Planted in mid May (dry in mid-late April) from slips that I got from Brett Haynes from Cullman. They turned out awesome for greenfield gardening... and I still have 25-30 vines to dig. Hopefully I can get this many again next weekend when I finish digging them.

Pics to follow.

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Sweet tater fries!

I love baked sweet potatoes.

Wow. there's some good uns on that tail gate. Deer love those things. I'm surprised they haven't dug em up and eaten them.

I scattered a sack of sweet potatoes in an area that we had set up as a feed station after the season last year and they laid there till they rotted. There were a couple of pictures of possums and coons nibbling on them, but the deer didn't eat them for some reason.

I use to have a chicken grower that raised sweet potatoes. I could get his culls, really, really cheap. I brought some home and piled them up over on the edge of a field. It took the deer quite a while to try them, but once they did they were gone quickly.

Love me some sweet taters!! Last time I grew them in one of my raised beds, the ants became problematic. I still got a good harvest but the ants got their fair share too.

I was very pleased how they turned out. Had just enough rain at the right time to make a few good ones. I use Milorganite to keep the deer out of the garden and it works. I have a little more to dig, hopefully, I'll get this many more from the vines that are left.

I used to buy culls by the trailer load in Cullman to feed deer,9-10 ton divided in 12 locations would disappear quickly

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