P2 is growing Sweet Potatoes in 2019! On April 24th I received sweet potatoes from Gurney's, including some of their best orange sweet potato varieties like Vardaman and Covington. The Tomato Cage in the back has been converted to the Sweet Potato Cage, but I also wanted to try a ground sweet potato patch. This is on the south property and was essentially a wasted space. Using 8' landscape timbers, Mark and I blocked out this location.
All was fine up until a week or so ago when cute EVIL BUNNY decided he needed a delicious snack. The brand new plants were nibbled to the stems. So as of yesterday, here's the addition of a 2' x 100' chicken wire fence to keep bunny out. As of this morning, the new sweet potato I added is still alive, so it appears to work as long as bunny doesn't learn to dig under the fence.
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| The Sweet Potato patch has 3 sections: 1 with Okinawa Purple, and 2 and 3 with the Gurney's varieties |
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| Section 1: Okinawa Purple sweet potato |
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| Section 2 Orange Sweet Potato (various varieties) |
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| Section 3 Orange Sweet Potato (various varieties) |
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| Proof that bunny didn't get in last night! I added this new plant yesterday, so far so good :D |
