From: pintiha@jhmi.edu   
      
   On Thursday, October 1, 2020 at 4:02:09 PM UTC-4, songbird wrote:   
   > Pavel314 wrote:    
   >    
   > > I harvested the sweet potatoes this morning. We had a 25' row, about 3/4   
   regular yellow and the rest white sweet potatoes. The yellow did very well, we   
   got at least 20# of good sized potatoes, but the white ones only produced two   
   medium sized and the    
   rest were just little shriveled ones, same as last year.    
   > >    
   > > Does anyone have the secret to growing white sweet potatoes? They're very   
   good when baked but our recent crops have been too small for baking.   
      
   > i've never heard of them before, but i wonder if the    
   > method of making sure the energy for the vines is only    
   > going into the central clump would help...    
      
   What method is that?   
      
      
   > our soil here is way too wrong for sweet potatoes in    
   > most gardens so we've not tried to grow them here since    
   > i've been around.    
      
   For the potato rows, I till sand, compost, and a little perlite into the soil   
   to break it up and make it easier for the potatoes to grow. I thought it was   
   strange that the yellow ones grew well but the whites didn't. The vines and   
   leaves look the same    
   for the two varieties. My wife put a marker in between the two so that we   
   could tell which was in each section.   
      
       
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   > songbird   
      
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