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To: metmom

My autist son loves carrots so he’ll be the official caretaker of the carrot plants. Good introduction to gardening and patience. I could take or leave them. Just discovered recently that he likes yams aka sweet potatoes which isn’t surprising since he likes carrots. I’m not messing with those this year.

I’ve got asparagus growing in the top of the barrel, the bottom is for the goat’s water and have that middle leftover. Barrels had food type stuff in them originally. I’ve got Muscade carrot seeds that I got from rareseeds last year.


123 posted on 03/22/2022 4:09:55 PM PDT by Pollard (PureBlood -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: Pollard; Diana in Wisconsin; Augie
Pollard; All; For some other time when you decide to take up Sweet potatoes. (For anyone who wants to grow sweet potatoes!) The year I planted them they overgrew the garden! Like squash, they need room! Good Goat fodder??

Both of these are you tubes from "Deep South Homestead.

Growing Sweet potatoes. (A long grow survival crop.)

1)Growing the slips that you will plant. No messing around with pans or buckets of water! Bury them in soil in your cold frame. Use long skinnys not fat thick ones. They will send up the slips. See:

Growing sweet potato slips

2)Planting them. Takes a forked stick and pushes them down in the prepared bed.

Planting Sweet potatos from slips.

126 posted on 03/22/2022 6:14:11 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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