sweet, your garden is a beauty! I live in a cooler area, I wish I could grow sweet potatoes and stuff. Do you know about mullein? Is that a dynamic accumulator? It has a long taproot and big leaves, and what about dandelion?
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Thank you! Do you by any chance to have a greenhouse? If so, you may be able to grow sweet potatoes, too. For dynamic accumulator, you can certainly use mullein as it can extract 4 different minerals. Dandelion can even extract 8 minerals!
woah that is super rad! Do you know what minerals?
A greenhouse is in this years plans for sure, but gotta build one. I tried sweet potatoes last year since we get a lot of heat in the summer, but too much smoke in the sky so not enough sun and not long enough season so I just got like 5 tiny ones haha.
Definately will be growing them when the greenhouse is up tho, I love them!
Please check this link for minerals: http://oregonbd.org/accumulators/
When the weather is right, it only takes 3 months for sweet potatoes to be ready for harvest. I let one stay too long in the ground and harvested a 16-pounder!
I probably could have grown them bigger if there wasnt smoke in the sky pretty much all the time then probably! That is good news. And thanks for the site, very helpful.
You'll welcome. Was the smoke from wildfires?
Everything is a dynamic accumulator. Deep taproots are more effective. Some plants accumulate more of certain minerals than others. So the theory goes.
hmm intersting, thank you!
i chop and drop mullein! especially cuz she's so prolific and easily roots, sometimes i don't want her going to seed. i also use her leaves as mulch and weed supression :)
Thanks for the reply! When there is mullein in my garden I do that as well, but there is so much around our property that I make ear oil and smoking mixes with some too :P