We’re still eating sweet potatoes harvested from our garden last fall. Sweet potatoes are one of the new trendy foods. They are nutritionally good for you and not that caloric.
They also taste pretty good, especially drizzled with a bit of agave nectar or cinnamon.
But the thing I like most about planting sweet potatoes in the back yard is their durability. We put some plants a few feet into the ground and watered once in a while. A few months later, presto! We pulled up a couple of dozen various sizes ranging from puny to ginormous. Few had any flaws whatsoever. And they have stayed tasty for several months before consumption.
Not so with other vegetation in our yard. Blueberries are time-consuming to pick and recover with netting so that the birds don’t eat them. Worms and bugs devoured more than half our tomato and kale crops. Peppers never seem to mature by the time growing season ends. And Japanese beetles devastated anything on our young plum and peach trees.
This year we will double the space allotted to sweet potatoes. I just hope the moles don’t hear about it.
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