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Probably Chinese celery. CC grow tall wit a lot of leaf branches and a lanky stem. I like its flavor better than traditional celery. I have tried to grow it from store bought (by rooting) but did not get good results.

It could be lovage too, very similar looking to celery.
Grows tall.

agree. I always prefer the crop all at once, except perhaps for salad tomatoes. If the crop is extended, you have to go through the entire patch every second day. Much better to go through one row at a time.

I get three pickings from Royal Burgundy bush bean, and it's meaty. Contender holds up well, too. Still, I plant bush beans twice, once in late spring and again in early summer.

I used the type called "benne", a landrace from coastal SC.

It is very likely the same that Jefferson kept trying to develop as a viable edible oil source at Monticello. Apparently it grew well enough in the climate there but harvesting and pressing were problematic, probably for financial reasons. What is less well known is that benne oil was produced for many years in ante-bellum SC and GA, part and parcel of the rice culture, both of which were brought with the slave-trade. It was the Africans themselves of course who brought the cultural knowledge for both those crops.

Forgot to mention:

Although the established plants are fairly drought-tolerant, the seed needs moist soil. So if your soil is sandy - which is good for the mature plant - you have to keep the seed-bed moist. This can be a challenge at any kind of scale, or if attempting dry-land culture, because by planting time for sesame the weather is hot and if rain is not frequent germination will be very poor.

"As a side note, once I dug up the main rows I left intact the trailing vines which re-rooted and now I may have more out there to possibly harvest before first frost. Will wait and see if this is true or not. Be nice to get a 2nd crop even if they are smaller."

Just to update my quote above - Today I dug up those leftover runners from my harvest on Sept 1st and I did get a good 2nd crop after 2 months of decent weather. I est that this 2nd digging was about 40% of the 1st harvest, not bad for just letting them run wild. Half of them are bakers and half are smaller for yam dishes. Next year I may do the same but prep the nearby soil for better re-rooting head start. Hope you all had a good crop!.

shayneca25,

How do you cook sweet potato leaves?

http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/asianveg/msg0717221413726.html?14

http://www.stokesfoods.com/nutrition.htm

Since the Stokes Purple is locally grown in the USA, it is NOT irradiated before it reaches the consumer. Other varieties of purple sweet potatoes that are imported from overseas must be irradiated when they enter the USA. Also, Stokes Purples have not been genetically modified in any way and are classified as Non-GMO sweet potatoes.

Just planted the purple skin purple fleshed sweet potatoes slips ordered from Georges Plant Farm.

I dug some of the purple skin purple fleshed sweet potatoes last week, It tastes good to me, next year I will grow more .

Thanks for the help! It definitely was red spider mites, once I looked closer I could see them. I mixed up an organic insecticide and it seems to have gotten rid of them but I'm going to keep sprtizing the plant with it for a while.

I live in NYC by the way and have it in a window that gets a lot of sunlight. Before the infestation is was growing quite happily.It has about six tomatoes growing right now. I'm going to try giving it some plant food to help it recover. Wish me luck!

I think having it inside causes spider mites for some reason. I've never seen them outside on maters. Try to isolate it from your other plants so it doesn't spread. We always threw out plants at the garden center I worked at that had spider mites. My boss said they were so hard to get rid of.

Here is interesting story about this

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This year I planted a few Yukon Gold in a couple of barrels, They grew well, and died off in mid August. I did not get them harvested, was gone on vacation, plus being tied up with tearing out my kitchen, I just did not get to it. Now in late October they are growing again. Should I just let them grow and when the frost gets them dump them out or dump them out now??? Leaving them in the barrels over winter is not an option as they would freeze.

OLD thread:

Potato maturity is very similar to tomatoes. In average it take 90 to 120 days from sowing seeds to harvest.

Now then it depend on where you are. For example, in North GA I used to plant in mid March and harvested around early July. Starting in June, I would reach in and get some young ones for cooking. Then In August I did fall planting.

It seems to me that a little bit of regular soil cultivation, even with a soil rake or a hand fork, would do the job. Wouldn't hurt the veggies you have growing either. Just dig 'em in (the weeds). You do that before the weed roots get deep, and they won't be competing with your veggies.

I also get big winds from the horse fields next door and don't like to go out during the winter and deal with windblown seed( I just pick the chard,kale,lettuce etc)
I plant 2 of my 8 beds for winter stuff and pile as many shredded leaves as I can, then cover with perforated cardboard so water can get through. Because most of the beds sink a bit, I usually add compost/soil about a month before planting in order to settle.
Cardboard usually lasts me 2 seasons. Nancy

2 years ago SVBs wiped out every winter squash and pumpkin vine I planted. So last year I put beneficial nematodes in the garden as soon as the ground warmed up. Last year and this year I haven't lost a single vine.

Next year I'll re-seed the garden with them including some that go after termites and ants.

Not cold enough in zone 6b, I had plenty. Hard to believe anything could survive last winter.

Flowers and houseplants make me feel the happiest. African violets, amaryllis and dendrobium orchids are my favorite mood lifters. Any plant growing inside lifts my spirits. Some herbs grow well in a sunny window.

Understood, and don't worry. Lisa and you have friends here.

I think i started it around very late august or early september but most probably after 25th of august.

Cuke is not houseplant. The timing is totally wrong. It is not worth the trouble to grow it this way. Search web on growing the cukes...

:) sounds like the perfect antidote to too much gardening! Congratulations!

What fun !

Yep, mantid ootheca. This would be an unwelcome sight in my garden where the darned things are more interested in bees and butterflies than scrounging around for pests!

Most people are happy to see them, though.

One more for mantis eggcase.

Rhizo- I have a lovely picture of one hanging upside down eating a cabbage moth. Not all butterflies are welcome, after all. :) I've seen the big ones eat grasshoppers who were eating the zinnias and once spied a wee one eating a wee bug... I think what they eat depends on how big they are.