What a great yield from six slips in your growing area! Those look delicious!
If you take one of the choice sweet potatoes and put it in a container of some sort and plant it you can slip it next year for your own slips. They are way more productive if you cut the slips and plant them that day or the next (store them in damp peat moss overnight if you can’t plant them that day). Keep them watered for a week or 10 days and you’re good to go.
I’ve slipped my own sweet potatoes for several years now. Will be maintaining 10 varieties this winter in containers in my unheated (but doesn’t freeze) garage.
I’m interested in learning about the honeynut squash. I STARTED to order those from jungs this year but got sidetracked and just didn’t add them to the cart. Were they really viney or more compact? How large did the individual squash get for you? etc.
Thanks for the tips on the slips! ;)
I have grown Honeynut butternut squash for three seasons now. Super productive. I put in 6 plants and we’ve easily got 50 squash. We’re going to harvest them next week, sometime.
They’re about 6-8” long and 4-5” around. Very small seed cavity, so it’s all MEAT, Baby! The smaller size is much more manageable for me, and one or two at a time is more than enough for a meal. I like to peel it and cut it into chunks, then put it in a bowl with EVOO, salt, pepper and chopped garlic, toss well, then onto a parchment-lined cookie sheet and into a 350 degree oven for 30-40 minutes, stirring from time to time.
And while they’re supposed to be a more compact PLANT - that hasn’t been my experience. They roam. But, where we plant them, it doesn’t matter. No problems with bugs or disease, even though we had an overly wet growing season this year.
Highly recommended. :)
P.S. I’m making Black Bean and Sweet Potato Chili for lunch, today.