Planting beans and sweet potatoes

It's a warm and sunny day outside!  Late spring is here, and planting is kicking into high gear.

Sweet potatoes are a tropical vine, and aren't related to regular potatoes or yams.  When we order them from the seed catalog, they ship us "slips," or rooted vine segments.  The leaves are a little wilted from their trip, but this is normal.  Today, we buried them in the soil and now we will wait for the fall to dig them up.

Terrence and Ms. Lucy dig holes for sweet potatoes. 

Cecil is adding compost to the soil to add nutrients and beneficial soil organisms (like our friends the worms), and improve drainage.  This year, we planted one bean beneath each fence post.  The beans will use the fence as a trellis.