Your 2025 Garden

[Sally PB]

I like to save seeds on OP plants as well. I do think it helps adapt them to your area climate and soil.

Yes! And it's another form of self-sufficiency security.

I worry when i`m gone my varieties will be lost! I would like to see others enjoy them as much as our family does! think I am going to send some seeds to MI gardener to see if he is interested!

Join Seed Savers Exchange, check out their website. As a member, you can share seeds with other members. I'm not exactly sure how that goes, so you'll need to look into the specifics.

 

[Bsmac]

Yes! And it's another form of self-sufficiency security.

Join Seed Savers Exchange, check out their website. As a member, you can share seeds with other members. I'm not exactly sure how that goes, so you'll need to look into the specifics.

We have ordered seeds from Seed Savers, I will have to check it out a little deeper!

 

[jxp]

Yes, I knew it was.

If you look closer, you will see that I gave the weight of the Cinderella's Ride in parentheses, 30 lbs.

All right, I'm putting that whole response down to coffee hadn't kicked in yet.

 

[fuzzi]

You are mistaken me for someone else. I would love to have grown some pumpkins and weighed in Cinderella, but I have non of those.

I found out this morning that the rotten rodents had dug up my sweet potato plants again, I threw over a few bags full of pine bark,they don't dig anywhere with pine bark.

Today I will get some more pine bark so that I can replant my sweet potato, this variety of potato has soft leaves, my chickens love them and I too. We do not eat this sweet potato fruit, just the leaves.

That's interesting!

I planted two sweet potatoes in one of my raised beds. Their vines have taken over a 20' x 15' area, and then some.

 

[jxp]

That's interesting!

I planted two sweet potatoes in one of my raised beds. Their vines have taken over a 20' x 15' area, and then some.

I cannot wait to dig yams and Irish taters. I've only got 1 set of the vine and 4 grow bags of spuds but I look forward to opening these presents nonetheless. Maybe with the weather down in the 80s all this past week and overnight lows in the mid 60s it'll encourage the plants to begin storing energy underground.

 

[R2elk]

Turned the sprinklers on the garden this morning.

First frost of this fall.

 

[Sally PB]

With few exceptions, my potato vines are dead. I have the marked so I know where to dig. I just dig as I need some, and leave them until threat of frost. By then, the vines have disappeared into the leaves that I put down as mulch.

 

[LaurenRitz]

With few exceptions, my potato vines are dead. I have the marked so I know where to dig. I just dig as I need some, and leave them until threat of frost. By then, the vines have disappeared into the leaves that I put down as mulch.

I was digging weeds this afternoon and turned up some potatoes. Nice surprise!

 

[NanaK]

We dug our Red Norlands early summer. We had so much rain many were lost to rot. Only got about 50% of last years harvest. Very disappointing. It looked like after rot the plants tried to start back producing. There were so many teeny tiny potatoes I knew we'd not get them all.

I did not replant that row during summer.
Those tiny leftover potatoes have almost filled that row back out with volunteers. lol

I've never grown potatoes in the fall. But here they are! We should still have several weeks before frost.

 

[fuzzi]

Anyone here have experience with sweet potatoes? I have read conflicting instructions online about curing, and storage. I would love someone's personal experience with them. Thanks.