Sweet potatoes languishing in their vines and still need their dirt-dump.
Could you explain what a dirt dump for sweet potatoes is? This is my second year growing sweet potatoes-any advice would be welcome.
Thank you!!!
LOL!
Sweet potato vines, if buried, will grow the tubers!
Last year I had them in a large pot. I started with the pot about half full of dirt - enough to cover the starting root and most of the vines so that only a few leaves were still sticking up into the sun. After a month or so, the vines had gotten larger, and I dumped more dirt on them.
This is my second year to grow the sweet potatoes also. I was amazed that my one little start last year produced about two pounds of potatos! Most were kinda little, but there were a couple that were about small fist size. The little ones ate pretty well, though.
This year my vines are very prolific, and need to be buried! But I’m in search of my poor lost round tuit!