{"id":351,"date":"2023-01-24T10:19:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T16:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trippyacres.wordpress.com\/?p=351"},"modified":"2023-02-25T11:51:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T17:51:26","slug":"sweet-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/24\/sweet-potatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Potatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Scientific Name<\/td><td><em>Ipomoea batatas<\/em><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Growing Days<\/strong><\/td><td>120 &#8211; sweet potatoes need a long growing season; they are tropical after all!<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Varieties We Grow<\/strong><\/td><td>Beauregard<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Growing Notes<\/strong><\/td><td>Start sweet potato &#8220;slips&#8221; by burying a sweet potato under some soil; when the shoots grow a few inches, pop them off and root them in water.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Battle of the Bugs<\/strong><\/td><td>Sweet potato plants are pretty hardy once they get established.  Though not bugs, deer will do a number on young sweet potato plants.  We know this first hand!<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Fun Fact<\/strong><\/td><td>The sweet potato plant is a tropical plant and a member of morning glory family.  It&#8217;s not related to the common potato at all.  It&#8217;s also different from a yam.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Don&#8217;t Waste It!<\/strong><\/td><td>Bake or roast it.  Enjoy!<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/img_1023.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-629\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific Name Ipomoea batatas Growing Days 120 &#8211; sweet potatoes need a long growing season; they are tropical after all! Varieties We Grow Beauregard Growing Notes Start sweet potato &#8220;slips&#8221; by burying a sweet potato under some soil; when the shoots grow a few inches, pop them off and root them in water. Battle of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/24\/sweet-potatoes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sweet Potatoes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-we-grow","no-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trippyacres.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}