I planted some #slips from grocery store #SweetPotatoes, and on only a few days they have turned into real plants.
I have never grown sweet potatoes. This is just a test. The frost will kill these vines long before they produce.
This isn't like growing potatoes. You don't bury any of the fleshy part, you break off a long slip, and then bury it diagonally, with only a little bit above the dirt.
Like tomatoes, any part of the slip can become roots.
The potato is known to have been domesticated near the Andes by at least 2500 BC.
The sweet potato is much older, at least 5000 BC. We don't even know where it was domesticated: probably either in the Yucatan, or in northern South America.
There are many varieties of sweet potato, but literally 1000s of varieties of potato.
Photographed this little Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly sipping nectar from a purple Morning Glory on one of our visits to Western North Carolina. Isn’t Nature wonderful to give us so many beautiful things to see?
To be clear, the primary factor in that review was the frustration and anger I directed at myself because “I should be able to do all the things.” Well, guess what, chickens? Should is a four-letter word.
This is the second in my vintage botanical series showing yellow and white paphiopedilum orchids and blue morning glories. Having so much fun creating this series. Hope you enjoy viewing it as much as I enjoyed creating it.
Morning glory Grandpa Otts: this electric beauty surprises me every morning as its trumpets open at different places on the vine. I managed to keep the slugs off (garlic spray!) when they were babies, so now about a dozen plants are climbing through the August garden. Each flower opens for just one day. But what a day.
thunbergia alata (black eyed susan vine) and ipomoea indica (purple morning glory) teaming up to make 100% sure the lid stays the heck closed #bloomscrolling#morningglory#thunbergia