I was looking at my sweet potato plants in my compost pile (I decided to put them there are as an experiment). It is more of a lasagna layering pile really. I have potato plants in there too. The level of the "soil" is rather low though.
Also the sweet potato leaves are just not healthy looking at all. I thought I could could get away with growing the slips this time of year (in zone 9a, slips started growing in October I think). I wonder if that is why they look a little sad and diseased, and the vines are not growing out at all. Perhaps I tried to plant them too late. Checking my local nursery's veggie and herb planting guide, which says to plant the tubers during the summer! So I am way off.
I remember planting snap pea seeds at the end of August here. They looked so unhealthy and yellow, with white spots on their leaves; they were also practically devoured by caterpillars and other bugs. Now in January I started over with both snap peas and Progress #9 peas. They seem much stronger now, though it is still early. Oh yes, and this time I won't add fertilizer to them! They do have some compost though. Such a relief they are looking better now. I did sow them according to my nursery's veggie guide this time.
Semi-rhetorical question: Is it important to plant seeds according to their traditional time frame, and will bugs and disease get them if they are planted outside of their traditional time frame?
Also the sweet potato leaves are just not healthy looking at all. I thought I could could get away with growing the slips this time of year (in zone 9a, slips started growing in October I think). I wonder if that is why they look a little sad and diseased, and the vines are not growing out at all. Perhaps I tried to plant them too late. Checking my local nursery's veggie and herb planting guide, which says to plant the tubers during the summer! So I am way off.
I remember planting snap pea seeds at the end of August here. They looked so unhealthy and yellow, with white spots on their leaves; they were also practically devoured by caterpillars and other bugs. Now in January I started over with both snap peas and Progress #9 peas. They seem much stronger now, though it is still early. Oh yes, and this time I won't add fertilizer to them! They do have some compost though. Such a relief they are looking better now. I did sow them according to my nursery's veggie guide this time.
Semi-rhetorical question: Is it important to plant seeds according to their traditional time frame, and will bugs and disease get them if they are planted outside of their traditional time frame?