This week we harvested sweet potatoes for the first time this season. They look good! When will shareholders start getting them? Maybe as soon as this coming Tuesday, September 28. After harvesting, sweet potatoes need to be cured for a few days. We will decide this Tuesday whether this first batch has had enough curing time. Do not worry, though, all shareholders will get plenty of them.
We at Clagett Farm want to extend a special thank you to shareholders Cindy Agard, Pat Burke and Chris Weule for the crucial help they gave four months ago. On May 25, one of the hottest days this year, they helped us transplant sweet potato slips. On that day the results of their hard work probably didn't look very promising: small and pitiful looking plants flopped over in a hot and barren field. A couple of months later, the field was thickly carpeted with sweet potato vines. And now we've started to dig out a good looking crop.
This is how our largest sweet potato field looked on May 25 right after transplanting (with Kathleen, Rana and Joe):
The same field on September 23. Sweet potato vines on the left (unharvested portion) and already harvested rows on the right:
And here is a recently dug up trio:
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