Sweet potato harvest

Sweet potatoes can look like ornamental plants but they are also food crops.  The plant above the ground is a vine with heart-shaped leaves.

Here's what the vine looks like in summer (this picture is from someone else's garden)

Here's what our vines looked like today.  The cold weather killed the vine, and the root is ready to eat.

Sweet potatoes and regular potatoes both grow underground and can look alike, but potatoes come from a modified stem and sweet potatoes come from the root.  When it gets cold, we can dig up the sweet potatoes.

This is the group digging up the sweet potatoes.

Milaun (grade 6) got a big one!

Javion's (grade 6) pride shows.

Look at the size of Toby's (grade 6) find!

Alzario (grade 8) can hardly believe how much we harvested.

We found some grubs in the soil, which can harm the sweet potatoes.  We fed them to the chickens.

The dead vines go to the compost.

The group shows off the harvest.

Toby likes to eat sweet potato pie.  Lorne likes sweet potato fries.  Jamari likes mashed sweet potatoes.  Milaun likes chopped sweet potatoes.  Alzario likes them in soup.  We'll sell our harvest at Friday's farm stand at 2:20pm dismissal.

(All photos taken by Jamari, grade 7)