Sweet Potato Flowers and a Good Harvest Recipe

Sweet Potato Flowers and a Good Harvest

By Eliot, on October 23rd, 2011

We have never grown sweet potatoes before. It was just on a whim last spring that I picked up some plugs at the nursery. They survived the arid summer and thrived. I dug one hill the first of this month and we had some sublime (but simple) baked sweet potatoes with butter and sea salt.

About a week ago, I went down to the garden to look for the cat (who had busted through a small hole in a window screen and had spent the day gallivanting around the yard.) I found her lolling in the garden (she loves to roll in the dust—nice) and I also found sweet potato flowers.

They are rather pretty!

After a quick google search, I found that…