Sweet Potato Harvest

Last spring I planted the sprouted end of a sweet potato before I cooked the rest of it. It wasn’t long before the large pot on the deck contained a fast growing and very green vine. A light frost last weekend damaged the leaves (on the left in the picture below taken about a month ago) - prompting me to harvest the crop. There were vines draped over the rosemary and basil pots and across the deck. They were sending their photosynthetic energy to that one pot so I anticipated that there were at least a few sweet potatoes.

The crop was one large sweet potato and then a handful that were shaped like large carrots. I’ll be making sweet potato soup with them later this week! Sweet potatoes are one of my favorite deck plants because they are easy to care for, they look pretty all summer long and they produce something edible too!