Post by rvm45 on Sept 16, 2011 9:58:03 GMT -6
When my sister was in first or second grade, they had each of them bring a Sweet Potatoe from home. They did it fairly early in the School Year. They put the Sweet Potatoes into a water-filled sixteen ounce Bell jar, and left them in the Window.
I think they brought them home right before Christmas Vacation, because they'd freeze in the unheated building.
Well my father put that Sweet Tater in the window at home, till spring.
On a spur-of-the-moment inspiration, he planted it in the Flower Bed. Understand--though the actual "Potatoe" part had shrunk a wee bit--the leafy branches were over two feet tall, and some of the roots would have straightened out to 10 or 11 inches.
He dug the flower bed up, right before the first frost of October.
Friends, I kid you not, we had almost a bushel of Sweet Potatoes--for some reason, they all turned out kinda on the long and thin side--but they were especially tasty.
This is just a variation of the idea of a seedling greenhouse--except this one gives the plant almost a six or seven month head start.
Obviously, there will be a limit to how many Potatoe or Sweet Potatoe
Plants that you can have in the window.....
Of course, if you really plan to swing hard at this technique, you might want a small Greenhouse or Solarium--attached to your house (So it could share the houses heating.)
.....RVM45
I think they brought them home right before Christmas Vacation, because they'd freeze in the unheated building.
Well my father put that Sweet Tater in the window at home, till spring.
On a spur-of-the-moment inspiration, he planted it in the Flower Bed. Understand--though the actual "Potatoe" part had shrunk a wee bit--the leafy branches were over two feet tall, and some of the roots would have straightened out to 10 or 11 inches.
He dug the flower bed up, right before the first frost of October.
Friends, I kid you not, we had almost a bushel of Sweet Potatoes--for some reason, they all turned out kinda on the long and thin side--but they were especially tasty.
This is just a variation of the idea of a seedling greenhouse--except this one gives the plant almost a six or seven month head start.
Obviously, there will be a limit to how many Potatoe or Sweet Potatoe
Plants that you can have in the window.....
Of course, if you really plan to swing hard at this technique, you might want a small Greenhouse or Solarium--attached to your house (So it could share the houses heating.)
.....RVM45
