A few hours of our Sunday were spent harvesting the remaining sweet potatoes from last year and preparing the bed for this year’s planting. I have a number of new sweet potato slips on the potting bench and am also creating a few more by rooting them in water from yesterday’s harvest.
Here are the last sweet potatoes drying in the sun on our driveway yesterday. I would estimate that we harvested well over 150 lbs of sweet potatoes from this one bed. I have been offering to share sweet potatoes slips with my neighbors so they can grow their own, as they seem to do so well here.
![Sweet potatoes drying on driveway](http://welchwrite.com/agn/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/2015-03-08-14.08.49-768x1024.jpg)
![Sweet potatoes drying on driveway closeup](http://welchwrite.com/agn/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/2015-03-08-14.09.57-768x1024.jpg)
Once all the sweet potatoes were up, it was time to re-fit the bed. Our little Troy-Bilt electric cultivator made a quick job of it and we are all prepared for planting in the next couple of days. The soil in this bed gets better and better with each season . I need to make a little deeper, but the soil is quite friable and light.
While most of this bed will be sweet potatoes again, I also plan on putting our new blueberry bush on the street-side end of this bed to increase our food production. I’ll have some video of this in the next few days.
![Sweet potato bed prepared for the season](http://welchwrite.com/agn/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/2015-03-08-14.09.10-768x1024.jpg)