Good morning #coffeechain ☕️
Happy Friday!
I'm looking forward to finishing my day at the fiat mine and planting my sweet potatoes tomorrow 😋
I've been sprouting sweet potato slips for a month now and they're ready to plant! I need a lot of ground cover in my food forest and these are highly recommended in my region.
I'm always planning for the future - from saving seeds to building a food forest to stacking sats.
Have a great day!
#homesteading
#permaculture
#gardening
#sats
Good morning!
Is it warm where you are? I’m in SC, we don’t plant sweet potatoes till June, they hate the cold
Oh yes, hitting Mid 80s today. Soil is getting warm fast. We only got 2 frosts this winter. Our last frost date is February 14.
It's nice to get the garden going early, but most of my gardening is done by June until fall due to intense heat and humidity. The sweet potatoes love it though!🙂
Morning☕😊. Planning for the future is the way to go.
Not sure if this is your first time planting sweet potatoes but in case your soil and temps are anything like ours (heavy clay, zone 7): they LOVE the clay, and we can't plant them until May because they dislike the cold (not just freezing temps - I think they actually don't like anything below 50 or so).
Sweet potatoes are awesome for covering bare soil here. So good that last year I thought I'd use them for ground cover as I got a few perennial flowers started, and the poor flowers never had a chance - it was sweet potato greens everywhere, almost immediately. They grow fast and vigorously. I believe they're edible if you're into greens, and in any case both goats and rabbits love them.
Your slips look wonderfu!
nvm aboutt the temperatures! I just saw that you're in Florida ☀️
