Photographs of this planting through the 2026 season, oldest first.
The photographs
Week of 1 JuneA sweet potato slip with heart-shaped leaves in a black fabric grow bag, its compost topped with coarse white perlite, a printed nursery label standing at the back and grass beyond.Week of 6 JulySweet potato slips in a wide black fabric grow bag, their heart-shaped leaves green with purple-flushed new growth, the dark compost heavily flecked with white perlite.Week of 31 AugustA black fabric grow bag filled with a sprawling sweet potato vine, its broad heart-shaped leaves some entire and some cut into three deep lobes, on long trailing purple-flushed stems.
