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Mon, Feb 24, 14 at 0:31
| We moved into a house with a garden that was previously planted with sweet potatoes. It basically served as a groundcover. The leaves are glossy and dark green until the cooler weather caused them to die back. In preparation for the spring, I decided to clear out the remaining vines and till the soil to amend it w/ some chicken manure. Surprisingly I dug up these tubers. They do not look like any sweet potatoes I've ever seen. Are these some strange variety or are these the usual russet potatoes that hid among the other vines all this time? I cut 1 up. The inside is whitish. Not sure if I want to eat 1. |
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| Yeah, the tubers of ornamental sweet potatoes can be rather gnarly looking. |
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| do you mind showing us the leaves? |
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| Looks like a normal white sweet potato to me, though you can see some splits from fluctuating moisture in the soil. The potatoes in the store must be selected for straightness of the tubers or something, because plenty of my home grown tubers are snake-y like that, especially if allowed to get really big. |
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| Otcay, that looks like what the Filipinos call Kamote, a sweet potato grown mainly for its leaves. I grew that for many years in SoCal, and even tried it once here. If that is the same one I grew, the tubers wander quite far from the plant, and are difficult to find (except by digging up the whole area). Those tubers were white & very twisted like the ones in your photo, and had a very dry texture when cooked. Dryness aside, they weren't bad tasting. |
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| thank you. I think i'll slice these up and make sweet potato chews for the dogs! |
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