Plant it, Grow it, Eat it, Compost it
Adventures in sustainable, high-density, urban veggie gardening… on a budget.
Many of us think sweet potatoes and yams are one and the same. While there is some rationale for the confusion they are indeed two different species.
Yams - like potatoes - are a tuber.
Sweet potatoes are roots and part of the Morning Glory family that grow on trailing vines and root at the nodes.
Yams have [...]
Potato plants
We’ve had rain 5 days going - a very good thing in this state (California) after a few drought years.
The garden is benefiting and especially the potatoes. I didn’t plant many but some green has bursted through.
This is the International year of the potato, so anointed by the United Nations.
The humble potato is a [...]
… a bunch of sprouted potatoes. Or at least a full tummy.
All this from a few sprouted potatoes
Today I harvested a basket full of potatoes. It’s so much fun to reach into the dirt and pull out these little jewels. All of these potatoes are offspring of potatoes I had in my pantry that started [...]
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