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RE: Gardenjournal 2018 - October
Nice post, @exator. I see some resemblance between your garden and mine, which makes me wonder where you are at.
The last ones standing in my garden are the sweet pepper plants. I agree that they're at their best when picked fresh, so I leave them there as long as possible.
I'm amazed by that laurel tree you have there. Our last one was just little bush when it died, so I planted another little bush this year. I didn't even know they could grow that big.
And how does the sweet potato-thing work? I mean, I just harvested all my green potatoes, because the greens had died. Did you just sprout a new sweet potato? Won't it grow very big by the time spring arrives? I never heard of overwintering sweet potatoes, so I'm very curious...
My garden is located in the upper rhine area.
The laurel is growing like a champ, maybe it needs even more cutting. I was hoping I could move it, because it's getting bigger and bigger, but I'm afraid I cant get it out of that stone it's growing in.
In Italy they use laurel as living fences.
I never had the greens die on a sweet potatoe. In fact I think sweet potatoes never stop growing, they just spread their tentacles and take root wherever they touch the ground. Unless they die from sub zero temperatures, of course.
Once I harvested the potatoes i just take one or two cuttlings from the massive amount of greens (some parts have roots already), pot them and keep them in the conservatory. Yes, they can grow pretty big but unless they get artificial lighting and tropical temperatures there's no chance they get too big over the winter. Next year I just plant it outside and take as many cuttlings from that plant as i want.