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You Know You’re a Gardener When

May 12, 2010 by Jeanne

So the other day I left a friend in my kitchen while I ran upstairs to grab my purse before we headed out. When I came back downstairs, she was poking at greens spilling out of a vase on the kitchen island. “What’s this?” she asked.

“Sweet potatoes,” I replied, thinking nothing of it.

The next day, I overheard her tell someone, “Jeanne puts hers in a vase of water before planting them. You should try that too.”

I had a good chuckle over that. Truth be told, I stuck the sweet potato sets or roots into a vase because they came on a weekday.  The box said “open immediately” and said I should keep the roots “moist” and plant immediately. Fat chance. Between a crazy-busy work week and a weird cold front that resulted in a late season frost, there was no way I was going to risk planting them now. So I grabbed a vase out of the closet and stuck the sweet potatoes into the vase like a bouquet of flowers.  Hopefully I will get out today and plant them in the garden.

You know you’re a gardener when instead of FTD delivering a bouquet of flowers, Parks delivers a bouquet of sweet potatoes…which merits your best vase.

Happy Gardening!

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  1. ~Gardener on Sherlock Street

    May 12, 2010 at

    I’ve been know to have “bouquets” of ornamental sweet potato vine when I’m getting them to root. I put the cuttings in big pretty vases on the kitchen table. People always think they look beautiful! Hope you can plant soon.

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