September 27, 2025
I was eager to finish digging up the sweet potatoes, so I was up at sunrise on Saturday (September 20).
Surprisingly, in a sweet potato flower blooming on a sweet potato in a grow bag on my patio, there was a bumble bee.
I watched Nox until she was tired of sniffing around the yard.
I put Nox back inside and took some more pictures of the sunrise. I got ready to harvest the sweet potatoes.
There was one sweet potato vine left in the garden; it was growing up a tomato plant. The sweet potato blooms were beautiful with the sunlight shining through the petals.
Here’s the first sweet potato from bed A2. I had planted Georgia Jet in it.
Unfortunately, about half of the Georgia Jet sweet potatoes had split.
I dug up two 5-gallon buckets from bed A2.
Bed A1 did not do well. I had planted fewer slips in the bed since I had peas and tomatoes on the sides of the bed. Several of the sweet potatoes were small, making me think we should’ve delayed harvesting them. I only got a half 5-gallon bucket.
Bruce came out as I finished digging up the last sweet potatoes. (His timing was perfect! How did he know the work was done?)
Here are the sweet potatoes curing in the shed.
I am pleased with the sweet potato harvest overall. I am waiting to harvest the sweet potatoes in the grow bags until the middle of October.
I got cleaned up, ate breakfast, and relaxed for a while.
In the afternoon, I worked on the picture of Juneau.
After several hours, Bruce came in and said, “You’ve been working on the picture for a long time. Your hand needs a break.” I realized he was right and put down my pencil.
We had a beautiful sunset.
Blackberry Homestead 
Oh, my! You did all that digging without breakfast?!?
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It made breakfast really good, as hunger is the best sauce!
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Wow, that is a lot of sweet potatoes! I hope you have some good neighbors or friends nearby to donate to. You can also start a little farmer’s market!
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I am going to check to see if my neighbors want any.
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Me! Me! Oh, right – at over 1000 miles away, I don’t really count as a neighbor. Oh, well –
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Yes, you are just a tad too far away to count as a neighbor! 😆
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Those sweet potato blossoms are beautiful. You look like you got a pretty good harvest. Do you know why the one bed did not do well?
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It was planted later and didn’t have as many plants. Bruce had finished cutting out the vines before I could stop him. When he gets going, he goes!
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That is still a very nice stash of sweet potatoes!
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It is!
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Looking forward to watching Juneau grow!
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Just finished curing all of my potatoes! Really wish that we should have planted more sweet potatoes!
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My potato harvest was so bad. I got about as many potatoes as I planted.
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That is a lot of sweet potatoes! I hope there is a good way to store them so they last until you can eat them all.
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I plan to store them in the dark room in the garage wrapped in newspaper in cardboard boxes. I really wish I had some wooden crates.
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