Harvest Time

Well, here's a good one.

And a new one for me.

I planted some sweet potato vines in a pot

to grace our balcony.

Time for a change.

Went to the nursery the other day

and bought some beautiful cyclamen.

Should have checked to see

if I had enough potting soil at home.

But I didn't check.

I took my scissors and snipped off

the vines and threw them away.

Then I gingerly tried to pull out the plants.

First of all, it was a struggle.

"Gingerly" didn't quite work.

I wanted to save the soil, if possible.

Didn't appear that was going to work.

The root system was massive.

Since I was working on the balcony

and didn't have much of a splat mat,

I didn't want to just turn the pot upside down.

Put my hands (no gloves) into the pot

and began pulling out the dirt by hand.

After about the third "dig" into the pot,

I grabbed something that didn't feel quite like dirt.

Nope - sure wasn't dirt!

Check this out ...

I grew two sweet potatoes.

All by myself.

And had no idea this would happen.

So what do you think about that?

The Runner said he was going to eat them.

We'll see.

Stay tuned ...

PS - I had enough dirt with some left over.