I like the idea of you pointing your customers here and visa versa. Great idea! I will have to check out your improvements! But not tonight, I doubt, as we will likely go to bed early after last nights fiasco. :)

I enjoyed reading your blog today on the trellises Mike. Thanks for sharing!

Doing good, I think I will have to water though. The proposed rain has not come. I have peppers, tomatoes, and some herbs sprouted as well as aloe and coleus. Looking to get the rest of the pre frost stuff in within the next week. Farmers are planting corn here now, so that is a good sign to me that it is time. Good Friday is potato planting time again. I have yet to have a crop of them, they always rot no matter what I do, but as I often say, “I shall endeavor to persevere!” :) I told hubby I must have at least one successful crop of them before I give up because I like potatoes so much, and I will not allow them to get the better of me. And once I have a successful batch, hopefully, I will remember how I got them in order to do it again the following year. :D In other words, there will be a try for potatoes every year for forever. Say, you wouldn’t know if sweet potatoes are supposed to go in at the same time as regular ones would you?

@ T.R.
I grew sweet potatoes last year. I had them out as soon as the last frost date was over. For me that was end of May and I was digging them up clean into mid October.

It is very wise to mound up your soil before planting them. Easier to harvest and plus the tubers get bigger. To get them to transplant stage is not so hard as one might think. Get a sweet potato that is sending out shoots. Nip off those shoots ‘slips’ and then put them in a cup or jar of water for about a week.

Best thing to do is put them in a sunny window or put them outside during the day and bring them in at night (This helps the hardening off process) if you still got frost advisories. When they show roots and your frost is over poke a hole in the mounded dirt with your finger. Put the ‘slips’ in the hole, water, and then push a little dirt up around them. Viola! You planted sweet potatoes!

LOL @ Grocery Store! =:-D
The type I grow is a family heirloom, got them from a great aunt and uncle of mine whom got them from a cousin of theirs around Beckley W.Va.

I received two plastic coffee cans full of starters in water, sprouting up and rooting out. Just pulled the sprouts off and planted them. I grew them last year and didn’t get them logged onto folia.

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They are not hard to grow at all plus the fact they vine out like crazy helps suppress the weeds! I trim the vines back to the main stem come fall and put a mound of dirt over top and store them all winter in the ground. Only had one or two that rotted over winter. Had sweet potato pie last week =;-)

Edited to add :
I had 5 rows with 10 plants per row. Each plant set on 5-6 tubers each. Figure how many wheel barrow loads I had to cart up a hill! =:-0