Yeah, trying sweet potatoes this year. Have meant to for a while, but the amount of work was beyond me physically for a few years. So, it was that, and some general maintenance on what is in the ground already for the most part.
Bella and I gave the corn/bean hills in the 3 Sisters planting a shot of watered down fish emulsion. The beans have emerged now. The Orinoco corn beans are showing a lack of pigmentation in about 20% of the beans. I am curious if those beans will be viable plants.
I hilled and side dressed the Bear Island Flint with basic 10-10-10. While doing fine, it is far behind the hills I planted at the same time, probably due to the added manure when we made the hills. I will give these guys a good shot of fish emulsion in a week to catch them up.
Beans we planted previously are up nearly everywhere.
And I worked at prepping 35 linear feet for sweet potato slips I am expecting. This is not showing the completed area, because I forgot to take that picture, but basically, I tilled down over a 40″ wide strip, then added 30 gallons of composted manure, tilled that in, then added 5.3 cubic feet of peat moss, tilled that in, then created a 35 foot long mound that I will plant the slips into when they come. Hopefully this is enough to crease drainage in the heavy clay. Wish I had used some sand, but oh well. I worked with what I had on hand and was not too heavy to carry. We will see, when the slips do show up, how it goes.
Other than this, I put in about 40 Arikara sunflowers which I should have put in a month ago, but still should get to maturity, and I did about a dozen hills of Mandan Squash, which is a really really short season squash. That was my Wednesday night after work, and it rained today, so I took the kids to see the new Jurassic World movie which was a lot of fun, and a lot easier on my body than gardens. <grin>
