Joylynn Hardesty

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It is to be expected. My sweet potatos failed. I can't seem to grow them. I shallowly planted 4 halves of sweet potatos,  just a bit peeking out of the soil. I got several slips growing from each of them. I chose to leave them in place. A new to me method. Take a look at my harvest!





Ummm.... Yes. Those are what is left the original two sweet potatoes. Skins with roots attached. Sigh.

Wow, that's awesome. Did you fertilize them?

Enchilada, rice with onions and jalapenos, and refried beans too! All smothered in cheese. Mmm mmmm!

I've also peeled the stem cut them to about 1 inch length and stir fried them with other veggies . That was good. The oldish leaves stripped off the same stem and chopped up were acceptable as a cooked ingredient in other meals. I've not used the leaves from a plant that has started to flower.

Young leaves from the second year stalk were cooked as greens by the Cherokee indians (who first saw Europeans in 1540.)  Young second year stalks can also be peeled and eaten. That stalk dried makes a good drill for making fire. Leaves can be eaten if boiled more than once but they are usually tough and gritty. Flower buds can be eaten raw or cooked and the flowers added to salads.  The seeds are edible as well (those seeds can also remain viable in the soil for at least 70 years.)  Try all parts carefully and sparingly. They can bother the throat of some people even when cooked, and the taste may be acquired. From Eat the weeds.

I don't remember how the green seedpods were, so they must not have been awful. But ummm.... The experts said flower buds, NOT green seedpods. Well, I'm still alive.

Eat the leaves sparingly until you know how sensitive you are to it. And don't make a soup with a the leaves as a MAIN ingredient. The taste can be overpowering. I haven't tried the roots yet. Just stumbled over a fall rosette a few days ago. It may end up asa side dish soon...

From Samuel Thayer... The bestest field guide ever!

My Grandma was a kindergarten, first grade teacher in a small country school for at least 30 years. She wound up teaching several grandchildren of her earliest students. Wild. She got a kick out of it.

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Flora Eerschay wrote:This reminds me that I have to call the chimney sweep. Which made me think, how do they sweep these rocket mass heaters that seem to have a labirynth of a chimney?

My recommendation for the best chimney sweep ever, though I know Paul won't need him...

Does anyone know if the leaves are edible? Last time I looked. I didn't find confirmation. Thoughts?