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5/13/00. Here's what the sweetpotato plants looked like when I bought them at the Southern States Cooperative.
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5/14/00. Here's one sweetpotato slip. Doesn't look like much, does it? I am assured this will turn into a sweetpotato plant.
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5/14/00. This is the best looking plant of the entire bunch. Actually, I think it was two plants still joined at the very bottom for about an inch. I debated about whether to separate them or not and decided against it.
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5/14/00. This is the worst looking plant in the bunch. It'll be interesting to see what difference starting size has on overall performance.
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5/14/00. Porto Rico sweetpotato bed. There are twenty-three plants, and a bunch that I heeled-in as spares in case any don't make it.
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5/21/00. Porto Rico sweetpotato bed one week later. You can tell a definite difference.
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5/21/00. Every plant has some new growth like this.
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5/21/00. Here's what the worst looking plant looks like after one week.
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5/21/00. Here's what the best looking plant looks like now.
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6/2/00. Growing slowly but surely.
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6/13/00. Seems like they're growing very slowly, but since this is the first time for sweetpotatoes for me, I have no experience with which to compare.
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6/14/00. Finally starting to run.
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6/16/00. OK, I can see a difference now.
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6/22/00. Beginning to "reach out and touch" each other.
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6/28/00. Some runners are now over 2 feet long and starting to attach to the soil.
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7/11/00. The bed is almost entirely covered with vines now.
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7/27/00. Overflowing the bed now.
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8/2/00. Deer sampling the vines?
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8/8/00. Still growing, and growing, and growing. Hope there's something underneath the vines.
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9/4/00. Sweetpotatoes, or kudzu?
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10/3/00. Sweetpotatoe harvest. Right at 1 bushel total.
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10/3/00. Many different sizes and shapes.
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