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Hello, and welcome to the Outlaw Garden! My name is Cristina Santiestevan, and I’m the outlaw gardener. I break the rules by growing vegetables in the front yard, even though my HOA (homeowners association) says “no.”
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Grow your own sweet potatoes
Your sweet potato questions: Answered!
What do you want to know about sweet potatoes?
Sweet potatoes!!
Sunchokes from store-bought tubers? Hopefully!
10 rules for growing vegetables in the front yard
6 vegetables that are super easy to hide from the HOA
It’s time to harvest sweet potatoes!!
Weekly garden stroll #11
Garden stroll #12: Midsummer doldrums
Earth Day, monarchs and the little things
Garden stroll #16: More snow!!?? Good grief.
Garden stroll #15: Snow!?
E-books and experiments
Here comes spring!
2013 Warrenton Seed Swap
It’s time to plant some … birdhouses!?
Home-grown vs. store-bought: sweet potatoes!
Sunchokes from store-bought tubers? Hopefully!
2013 seeds: ordered!
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i love all your post and pics. I also planted sweet potato slips this week end i hope i get some tators
the others are still in the glass bowl waiting for them to grow a few more inches before i put them out. What do you do with the potato once you pick all the slips off, can u plant it, or just throw it away. normally i do but as a experiment this time i planted the potato just to see what happens. thanks! happy gardening:)
Oh yeah, just plant the whole potato. You should get another burst of growth from it, which will give you another nice sweet potato plant. I usually plant the leftover pieces of sweet potato at about soil level — half above and half below. Not sure if that’s better than burying it. That’s just what I started doing, and it works for me.
I can’t wait to try this…how do i know when I can harvest the sweet potatoes?? Is it just 100 days after they have bee planted? then do you pull the whole plant out or just dig up sweet potato?