Sweet potato can be harvest after four month of planting.
My mother in-law's brother ,tatay Doming planted this sweet potato last September 2024 and since it's already four months after planting,we checked last week if we can gather some sweet potato and glad that we already gathered some and cooked it.
We started harvesting it last week ,we didn't sell it since it's not that really a big sweet potato garden.
My brother in-law also picking some sweet potato I think it's forth times I saw them picking some of it.
Yesterday we planned to pick some potato were going to give it to the priest today coz were going to attend a Sunday mass and our Barangay is the sponsors for the afternoon mass.
So this morning we tried to picked some sweet potato together with my mother inlaw.
Glad that we found some sweet potato even if how many times that we harvested it.
This sweet potato has two variety ,the white one with the violet inside or we called it tapol in our dialect and red one.
After how many minutes of looking for a sweet potato ,I was like bathing my sweats ,I am so wet lol!I was looking like having an exercise hahah.
I really like picking some of it ,I just remember when I was a kid during Saturday ,we visited those big sweet potato garden ,asking the owner if we can pick some of it after they harvested.
We tried to looked and picked some left over from their harvest.
A good timing to picked some left over is after the rain coz some of it will grown with leaves and steem and some can be seen after the soil was flushed by the rain.
We feel blessed of some owner who allowed us to picked and gathered some sweet potato and that sweet potato we can gathered was for our meal especially when we're running out of food.
These are some of the sweet potato I picked.
After a few minutes of searching ,I am glad that we able to picked some of it.
After a while ,my son was looking for me ,keep calling me asking where I am hahah.
This sweet potato garden was located at the side part of my in-laws house.
He's asking me if he can join so I let him but then suddenly some ants bite him so we stopped picking an shot home as we can feel also the heat of the sun.
And that's it for today ,I can say that inorder for us to save money for our food ,we can plant our own food instead.
Sweet potato now in the market cost $1 per kilo but since we have our plant we can picked ,cooked and eat it free.