2024 garden season

[TNTreeHugger]

Sweet potato vines need to lay flat on the ground so they can put down the feeder roots at the leaf joints.
Yes I do love my 12.5 pound taters! lol! Good stuff and fully matured!
The 4 oz ones the stores sell are tasteless and a waste of time!

You are the sweet tater expert, for sure!
Yeah, I noticed that on my mystery pumpkin vine I had year before last - it sent roots into the ground at the leaf joints.

I brought my sprouted sweet tater inside yesterday, the one in the mason jar, I clipped the vines in half and put the cut ends in water.
If these survive the winter will they be good to plant in the spring?

 

[muddstopper]

I am going to add my 2 cents again. Sonny is right, tater vines do need to touch the soil in order to spread and produce more tubers. thing is in pots you only have so much room for the tubers to grow. Trellising or hanging the vines in pot grown taters will allow mor sunlite to reach the leaves an help you plants produce bigger taters in the pots. gound planted thaters need the room to put out vines to gather the sunlite,. The size of the pot will make a bigg difference in the size tater rhat can be grown. small pots and lots of vines results in strings, not taters. One thing i have tried that with limit success is planting slip in one pot and placeing a non planted pot right next to the planted pot and letting the vine grow across the nonplanted pot and rooting itself. this results in a new plant and more future taters. It works, but its slow go.

 

[muddstopper]

I am having a hard time typing. I had a stroke a couple weeks ago and now have mobility issues and motor skills. Typing is hard and needs lots of corrwctions. For that reason i am just going to stop trying to correct my s[ellong an punchuation. baare with me as i continue to make a foll pf myself and jsur undrstand if someone wants to be a spelling oe gra,,ar nazi, I font give a f if you dont like the way I am writing this.

 

[Del_]

I am having a hard time typing. I had a stroke a couple weeks ago and now have mobility issues and motor skills. Typing is hard and needs lots of corrwctions. For that reason i am just going to stop trying to correct my s[ellong an punchuation. baare with me as i continue to make a foll pf myself and jsur undrstand if someone wants to be a spelling oe gra,,ar nazi, I font give a f if you dont like the way I am writing this.

So sorry to hear it.

Wishing you the best my fellow gardener.

 

[TNTreeHugger]

I am having a hard time typing. I had a stroke a couple weeks ago and now have mobility issues and motor skills. Typing is hard and needs lots of corrwctions. For that reason i am just going to stop trying to correct my s[ellong an punchuation. baare with me as i continue to make a foll pf myself and jsur undrstand if someone wants to be a spelling oe gra,,ar nazi, I font give a f if you dont like the way I am writing this.

Oh no, I am so sorry to hear that.... I wanted to give your post both a sad face for the stroke part, and a "love happy face" for your spunky positive attitude.

Don't fret over the typos - just keep typing and it will get better.
Besides, the human brain is pretty good at filling in and replacing missing letters.

Remember seeing this online?

AI Overview

Yes, the human brain has the ability to "fill in" missing letters on text, particularly when the first and last letters of a word are correct, relying on context and its understanding of language to decipher the overall meaning, even if the middle letters are jumbled or missing; this phenomenon is often called "typoglycemia."



Thanks for the tater advice
Keep typing - we need you here!