I did the same.

Ohhh! I'm going to do that! Thank you!!

😮oh, I wish I knew about that when I harvested. Next year for sure👍

Mine blooming as well 😊I need to harvest them soon

I harvested mine today got over 100 pounds off of 12 slips. They’re in my cure room now.

What zone are you in? And does “end of the year “ mean end of December or end of your growing season? We had some small tubers I would like to try and grow from for the next growing season but I don’t know how to store for replanting or when to plant them. Can you advise, please?

@@pstogs516 I am zone 7a. I replant the small ones as soon as I harvest, so late Summer. Once you get a bed going you will have lots of volunteers anyway from left behind roots and missed tubers. They will sprout before frost, but that's okay. I leave the foliage on and just cover everything with mulch. Do not water over the wintertime, it will rot the overwintering roots. When they sprout in Spring, fill in the gaps with sprouted cuttings or slips. If you don't have at least 3 weeks before frost in your area (to establish roots) just cure your baby tubers along with the big ones, then store in a cool dark spot, and plant as soon as the ground is workable in your area.

Yes! Give them another try!

You don’t have to cure them to eat them. I cooked up a bunch of mine right off the bat and put them in 2 pound bags and freeze them for pies and other stuff.

I just cooked a small one that I dug a few days ago. It didn’t really have much taste, but I expected that due to lack of curing. I decided to treat it like an Irish potato and pan fry its slices with onion and eggs.

Try adding some banana peels to your compost and you will have a bumper crop. I had one potato this year that weighted 11.7 pounds.

Save and dry all the banana peels you can get your hands on then crumple them up and add them to compost you put around your sweet potatoes. You will be surprised what you get next fall.

Slips are the stems and leaves that grow from the sweet potato. Some people put the base of the potato in water and let it root and start growing slips. Others put the potatoes in dirt sideways and let it grow. Hope that helps

I planted slips from tan colored sweet potatoes and the ones I harvested had a redish coloring to them, not sure of the variety but I bought just said organic sweet potatoes on the label?

Thank you so much for this Information. This harvest looks completely different from last year. They are smaller shaped differently. Some also have a different color. This makes a lot of sense what you described.

You could be correct, however, the yams I am familiar with are dark brownish-black or purplish and hairy looking, with a crevice down the middle. Confusingly, sweet potatoes come in many colors. It’s enough to give anyone a headache. 😂

​@@danasmith3664 The whole subject of sweet potatoes is a study in itself for preppers. There are over 3000 worldwide varieties of sweets - with Japan growing up to 43 different varieties. Look up "Types of Sweet Potatoes." These are the 14 common commercially-grown (actual) "sweet potatoes." Sweet potato varieties can be color-divided into 8 basic types: White flesh with - white, yellow, purple skin Orange flesh with - white, orange, red, purple skin Purple flesh with - purple skin Each variety will have a unique flavor, soft-to-hard texture, and fibrosity. This further breaks into sweet or starchy varieties. Sweet potatoes (scientific name lpomoea batatas) are often called “yams” in the United States. However, true yams (Dioscorea sp.) are starchy edible roots that are white in color and have tough skin, which makes them difficult to peel. Such white flesh with white skin sweet potatoes (being starchy) could be easily misidentified and misnamed as "yams." The same for white skin - white flesh yams that (ahem !) could be deliberately mis-named as (higher priced) sweet pototoes. You only gave the skin color - so the flesh color further identifies the actual variety you mention. Look up sweetpotatoplants. They show 11 photos of their sweet potatoes. Look up George's Plant Farm and look at their photos. I know of no sweet potatoes or yams that have a crevice in them - unless you are growing in hard or rocky soil and the tuber had to scrape-by or grow around some soil (or genetic) defect. All are mostly cylindrical with varying sizes, girths, and lengths - along with their skin and flesh colorings, textures, and sweetness/starchiness. Your tater ~could be~ a Kotobuki, Murasaki, Purple Passion, or a Red Japanese, From your words, you have sweet potatoes - misnamed as yams.