Home-grown Sweet Potatoes
Mom and dad planted some sweet potates in the backyard a while aback.
They reaped about 5lbs of it!
Mom boiled/steamed? some to eat with fry chicken and fry rice one Sunday lunch and yet we still had the rest of it…4.5lbs
So this was around when Chennette was galavanting around the USA…and so I planned when she came back we’d make sweet potato fries.
And we did.
:-)
I dream of sweet potatoes now and can’t wait to have some more.
See more sweet potato pictures in my Home-grown set!
Why a home-grown set? Well we’re trying to plant more things. We even bought lemon basil and rosemary. I’ll tell you more about it later.
It was a while back when I felt like making soup with sweet potatoes. So I stopped at our vegetable place and I asked for a pound of sweet potatoes. With bag on the counter I asked, “how much?” $TT10.00 I was told , so I paid and came home and made my soup. But while pealing the very small potaoes I noticed oe ws growing , so I cut the planlet out and stuck it in my chives pot. From there we got the slips to plant on a bed….. that was Nov 2007 ….we have planted much more and still have at the old place and would probably reap again… so it took about 6 months to reap after planting….so anyone can try ….
Comment by trinimom — Sunday 27th, April 2008 @ 9:23 pm
see you didn’t tell me the whole story just that you cut out some … stuff and planted it around when the last two grandchildren were born
Comment by Lilandra — Sunday 27th, April 2008 @ 10:21 pm
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Sorry, but I thought you knew the whole story about the expensive potatoes…….on another note if we are to eat local we are to plant our own food since blue food / soul food/ground provisions etc as they are called is expensive… the person with a breafruit tree would be doing fantastic these days…..
Comment by trinimom — Tuesday 29th, April 2008 @ 7:03 am
where’s our breadfruit tree??
Comment by Lilandra — Tuesday 29th, April 2008 @ 3:48 pm
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[...] blogged about our home-grown baked sweet potato fries back in April. These are really good sweet potatoes that Mom got months ago (for TT$10 a pound!) [...]
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