It isn’t quite time to harvest the sweet potatoes but I’ve been wanting a home grown baked sweet potato and I like to let them cure for about 10 days before we use them, so I went to the first bed where I had planted them. I planted them three different times, in three different beds over a two month time period so I was hoping to find some nice sweet potatoes in the bed that I planted first . . and I did. I dug up the potatoes from two slips and got this:
There are some big ones, some medium ones and some small ones. I’ll use the small ones to cut into “coins” and make with a syrup for candied sweet potatoes. The others will probably get baked. I’m hoping we get enough to get us through the year without having to buying more but it was so very hot outside . . I couldn’t dig more. I hadn’t planned to dig them all . . just enough to eat over the next couple of weeks. Now I’m so anxious to see how many we got, it will be hard to stay out of the sweet potato beds.
I keep hearing that I can plant squash late and the squash bugs and vine borers will be gone. I started digging in the old potato beds because I was going to try planting a few zucchini and yellow squash seeds. It’s too late to plant winter, or hard skinned squash but the quick growing zucchini and yellow squash should give us something . . IF the squash bugs are really gone.
Anyway, I thought I had dug all the potatoes from those bags months ago. I dumped the dirt in a wheelbarrow to mix it with some compost and this thing fell into the wheelbarrow.
I guess when it decided no one was coming for it, so it figured it might as well produce babies. I have never seen that and will be quite happy to never see it again. I am not going to eat it!!
KATIE M PETERSON says
I fry a sweet potato in the morning as/with my bacon cooking . Fun little coins in the am.
judy.blog@gmail.com says
You eat it just like that – the little coins with breakfast?
KATIE M PETERSON says
Yep I cook my sweet potatoes and my bacon in the same pan at the same time. When they are close to done, I throw on my eggs on top and sprinkle some cheese. Cook a bit more and then when I plate it, I flip 1/2 over and it is a bacon wrapped like omelet. Yum!
judy.blog@gmail.com says
Thanks! I’m going to try that.
Dottie Newkirk says
That’s definitely strange!!
justquiltin says
Well that’s a freaky looking thing!
judy.blog@gmail.com says
Makes you wonder how much weird stuff grows and when buying it in the store, we only see the good – not the crazy!
Rebecca L says
: That’s the premise behind “imperfect produce” companies. I don’t know if they would include that tumorous tuber, but sometimes they have things that just aren’t pretty, or are not the “right size” (can include too large and too small). I wonder if they would include your 2-legged carrots? 😀
judy.blog@gmail.com says
I’m so glad you remember the two legged carrot. Every time I get a bit of imperfect produce from the garden, I think of him . . and he was definitely a “him”. 🙂
Teri says
Have you ever soaked your sweet potatoes in water for a few hours before you bake them. It makes them very very soft inside. Delish….
judy.blog@gmail.com says
I have not but I will try it. Thanks!
Joyce says
That last potato made me laugh. To me it looks like it has boils. I wouldn’t eat it either! LOL
I usually make fried eggs for breakfast, but I’m thinking maybe I should try some veggie omelets. I have purchased frozen sweet potatoes, and I’m thinking they would be quick and easy to add to eggs.
judy.blog@gmail.com says
Try it. You never know til you try something.