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Fw: Sweet Potato Harvest from an OSFGwV

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-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Teuton <fteuton@total.net>
To: sqft@listbot.com <sqft@listbot.com>
Cc: OGL@LSV.UKY.EDU <OGL@LSV.UKY.EDU>
Date: Thursday, September 23, 1999 7:24 PM
Subject: Sweet Potato Harvest from an OSFGwV


>My Sweet Potato harvest is in, according to my scale I got about 42.5
pounds
>of sweets from a bed 34" x 93", or 22 square feet.  I planted 12 slips of
>Georgia Jet that I got from Mapple Farm in New Brunswick, in a 2 x 10
lumber
>box, amended with peat moss and vermicompost, covered in IRT plastic.
>
>My reading of Ken Allan's book suggests that the Canadian record is 2 lbs
>per square foot, so I am in the ballpark....:-)
>
>Said sweets are now being cured in paper bags, down in the laundry room,
>heated to 90 degrees F, as recommended by Mr. Allan, for the rest of the
>week....
>
>Taste tests will come later, as curing and aging are supposed to improve
the
>flavor...
>
>Some of these Georgia Jets are pretty big tubers, I tell ya.....:-)
>
>Frank Tuber Teuton, tootin' about his rootin'.....:-)
>


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