{"id":5965,"date":"2016-11-08T22:56:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T21:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/?p=5965"},"modified":"2016-11-08T23:01:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T22:01:38","slug":"sowing-growing-harvesting-sweet-potatoes-suesskartoffeln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/?p=5965","title":{"rendered":"sowing, growing, harvesting: sweet potatoes \/\/ s\u00fcsskartoffeln"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/wp-uploads\/2016\/10\/sweet-potatoe_bearbeitet-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5970\" src=\"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/wp-uploads\/2016\/10\/sweet-potatoe_bearbeitet-1.jpg\" alt=\"sweet-potatoe_bearbeitet-1\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2312\" srcset=\"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/wp-uploads\/2016\/10\/sweet-potatoe_bearbeitet-1.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/wp-uploads\/2016\/10\/sweet-potatoe_bearbeitet-1-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/wp-uploads\/2016\/10\/sweet-potatoe_bearbeitet-1-768x1156.jpg 768w, http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/wp-uploads\/2016\/10\/sweet-potatoe_bearbeitet-1-680x1024.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>i am so excited! this year we tried growing sweet potatoes by our own for the very first time and i really wasn&#8217;t sure if it will work out. i read somewhere that\u00a0they need more than 100 days of sun, but that you cannot put them outside before end of may\/ beginning of june, that they only grow in temperature above 24\u00b0C and so on.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>all in all not really the conditions that you have in our part of the world. but we gave it a try. put two small sweet potato plants in a large black (to optimize the temperature above 24\u00b0C) container and watched them growing.<\/p>\n<p>and the plants grew very well and have been very decorative on our terrace. but we had no idea of\u00a0what happened underneith the earth in the meantime. growing nice sweet potatoes or nothing &#8230; everything was possible.<\/p>\n<p>so\u00a0we waited until mid-october. the leaves started to turn yellow, so we\u00a0took a deep breath\u00a0and started to dig in the container. still afraid of finding nothing or very tiny potatoes&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>but than we found the first very large sweet potato and another one and another one, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>super-cool thing! we will grow some sweet potatoes on our terrace next summer again, for sure. and maybe we will also try growing them outdoors and will enjoy\u00a0many <em><a href=\"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/?p=5862\" target=\"_blank\">sweet potatoes dishes like this one with kale<\/a><\/em>, yummy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/wp-uploads\/2016\/10\/sweet-potato_2_bearbeitet-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5973\" src=\"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/wp-uploads\/2016\/10\/sweet-potato_2_bearbeitet-1.jpg\" alt=\"sweet-potato_2_bearbeitet-1\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2312\" srcset=\"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/wp-uploads\/2016\/10\/sweet-potato_2_bearbeitet-1.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/wp-uploads\/2016\/10\/sweet-potato_2_bearbeitet-1-199x300.jpg 199w, http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/wp-uploads\/2016\/10\/sweet-potato_2_bearbeitet-1-768x1156.jpg 768w, http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/wp-uploads\/2016\/10\/sweet-potato_2_bearbeitet-1-680x1024.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i am so excited! this year we tried growing sweet potatoes by our own for the very first time and i really wasn&#8217;t sure if it will work out. i read somewhere that\u00a0they need more than 100 days of sun, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/?p=5965\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,11],"tags":[156],"class_list":["post-5965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-autumn","category-gardening","category-summer","tag-sweet-potato","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5965"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5975,"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5965\/revisions\/5975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodiesgarden.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}