Posted by oakandsage on May 28, 2013 at 01:48
PermalinkWell, it looks like this is the end of the line for this year's (massive sarcasm quotes) "cool season" here. Pea production appears to be slowing down significantly, and I'm pulling out the last of the lettuce while some is still edible. Much of it is too bitter to eat. New lettuce stopped coming up over a month ago, of course.
Sweet potatoes are planted in containers of aged compost, and have put out leaves. Cherry tomato is waist high and has a number of immature fruits on it. The other tomato plants have been getting limited sun due to a thicket of bolting rocket while I was too busy with work to clear it out, but I've done that now, so we should see some growth. Garlic is forming bulbs. As soon as I finish getting rid of the last of the lettuce and arugula I need to get the eggplant and squash in so we can get the summer started.
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This sounds very promising! One of these days I really must try sweet potatoes. I've heard a few people say they grow them in containers. Have you done it before and was it successful?
No- I haven't done sweet potatoes in containers before, but I know it can be done. Last year I grew them in the beds and had a number of problems. The soil is clay, and digging them out was hard; the beds were also too shallow, and the sweet potatoes grew through the mesh at the bottom, making for a terrible time removing them. And then I didn't get a great crop because of rodent damage. I'm thinking this will be better - the harvest is supposed to be really easy, just a matter of dumping the soil out of the container. I don't have any space concerns since the main container is actually much deeper than my beds. (My beds are only about a foot deep)