Seven months after planting out, I harvested 7.5 kg of #Kūmara (#SweetPotato) out of the #garden. At current Woolworths' prices, that's about $30 worth or about 20x my initial investment! Not bad from one store bought kūmara!🍠

Serious question...can #SweetPotato get any better?
Fan et al. think so! They recently identified a natural allelic variant in the promoter of IbNAC22 that regulates #starch #biosynthesis and is a candidate #gene for crop improvement!
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13916
@wileyplantsci
#PlantSci #JIPB #botany

Wet day today but I'm still going to try & get some ground clearing done for the sweet potato slips & strawberries, beyond transplanting both.

Grateful for the gifted strawberry seedlings and hopeful on these slips from the sweet potatoes I bought this past winter will work & give me some new sweet potatoes.

#gardening #SweetPotato #Strawberries

https://www.alojapan.com/1279692/hawaii-public-schools-serve-up-okinawan-sweet-potato-for-lunch/ Hawaii public schools serve up Okinawan sweet potato for lunch #cafeteria #FarmToSchool #farmers #farms #lunch #news #Okinawa #OkinawaNews #OkinawanSweetPotato #PublicSchools #sustainability #SweetPotato #uala #沖縄 HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Okinawan sweet potato was on the menu at 91 public schools in Hawaii this month. It’s an effort to get homegrown ingredients into cafeterias across the state. Hilo Union School was one of dozens serving up…

Finally saw some of my sweet potatoes growing slips, so even as I'd just intended on cutting off regular potato blossoms today, in seeing that growth, I got them into some starter pots just now, as later today I'm hoping to have cleared some front yard space for them and after dividing some of the slips a little more, to transplant them all into the front yard, which is very wet from the 2 day storm system.

#SweetPotato #Gardening

Fritters are a great way to cook sweet potatoes and zucchinis! #fritters #vegetables #zucchini #sweetpotato

https://plantbasedfolk.com/sweet-potato-zucchini-fritters/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into The Recipe Exchange @the-recipe-exchange-food

and "a tad bit more #ginger"

#SweetPotato #Soup with Roasted Cauliflower Crumbles
https://pinchofyum.com/sweet-potato-soup-with-roasted-cauliflower-crumbles

#recipe #dinner

And for even more sweet potato goodness, you can watch our short video about potatoes in China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHf0tnV9LQ0 #SweetPotatoDay

#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #SweetPotato

When is a potato not a potato? When it’s a sweet potato! Celebrate #SweetPotatoDay by learning about the history of both types of potato, and how they’ve affected world history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdPQ8zFUipw

#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #SweetPotato

Coders have heard of #YAML, but have you heard of yamL?

#yam #yams #sweetPotato

Sweet potato & turkey sandwich = an easy, delicious lunch idea! 🥪🍠 Perfect for my ADHD-friendly cooking style. Who else loves a simple yet tasty meal?
#POV #lunchidea #sweetpotato #ASMR #healthy #POVcooking #ADHDcooking

https://youtu.be/YauCVlV8bfY?feature=shared

Today's travel for gardening completed- I've now got 3 sweet potato varieties & turmeric.

I didn't get them at a gardening store but at an Asian market.

*In a year or 2 I'm probably going to order slips from a gardening supply store, for more varieties but for now, 3 is enough especially if they grow well.

#Gardening #SweetPotato #Turmeric

Did you know today is #NationalCookASweetPotatoDay? Neither did we, but hey, any excuse for sweet potatoes is good enough for us! And while you’re cooking, why not learn some fascinating history about this particular root vegetable: https://youtu.be/KHf0tnV9LQ0

#CookASweetPotatoDay #SweetPotatoes #Video #Etymology #WordNerd #Linguistics #Words #SweetPotato #Language #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm

@harrietteann

Sweet potatoes are soo good!

*switching on nerd mode*
Also, we are working here on a very interesting horticultural management system to improve soil health by applying wood residues (e.g. branches from tree pruning). The wood residues increase soil organic carbon and contain also some nutrients. Usually, people would advise against using wood residues as fertilizer (because they contain a lot of carbon, making the other nutrients such as nitrogen unavailable and not letting crops grow), but some farmers found a very nice solution:
They apply the wood chips and plant directly sweet potato. Sweet potato is a totally rad plant that has cool bacteria around their roots that fix nitrogen and grows perfectly in these soils. After some months, you can harvest a nice amount of sweet potatoes AND have a supernicely regenerated soil for other crops.

The inventor calls the technique "Carboniato" (boniato is sweet potato in spanish).

#agriculture #SweetPotatoes #SweetPotato #Horticulture #RegenerativeAgriculture #Permaculture #Vegetables #SustainableAgriculture #OrganicAgriculture

The teenager’s choice… 🐉
🍣🍱🇯🇵🎋🌱
#vegansushi #nanasushi #vegan #bolderberg #sustainability #crueltyfree #cucumber #avocado #sweetpotato #tofu #plantbased #plantaardig #rice

These didn't last too long.
Korean Purple sweet potato crisps.

#Purple #Taro #SweetPotato #Crisps #Chips #Korea

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#mastodon #mastadonbeginner #diner45 #rättvik #dalarna #chickenwings #sweetpotato #sunday #söndag #aw #afterwork #introducera