Our gardening experience continues to grow ! We finally got to pull our sweet potatoes out of the ground. Sophia was thrilled when her Baba took her out to do the dirty work ! We actually got quite a few, but not nearly the amount I thought we would. We looked into it a little and realized where we made our mistakes. Our biggest problem was that we didn't give them enough room to grow. These vines can spread....like crazy ! So whenever we saw a little tendril making it's way out of my neatly-outlined area, we would just lift it and put it back with the bunch. Actually, as they spread out and grow they continue to root themselves along the way producing more and more potatoes ! At least that's our new understanding. The ones we did pull were delicious. A few of them were too tiny to use, we really could have left them underground much longer but we haphazardly YANKED al of the vines above-ground assuming they were all "done" !
We are still getting quite a few peppers of all colors ! Our eggplant was very productive too ! Our biggest failure were the tomatoes - which obviously did not get enough hours of sun every day.
At least we are better prepared for next year !
