Hello, Friend!
We're in the home stretch of our main gardening season.
The first frost isn't in the forecast just yet, but it's coming. Tomatoes are tired, producing their last few fruits that may or may not ripen. Bell peppers are laden, but again -- will the yellows and oranges appear before the cold gets them? Okra harvests are just a handful at this point. And the rest of the farm is mostly cover crop sprouting up to regenerate the soil through the winter.
Except for the sweet potatoes. They're thriving!
We'll harvest them around the time of the first frost, whether or not they get to the point of starting to wilt and die back. But in the meantime, look at all of those sweet potato greens!
Did you know you can eat the greens?
Like sweet potatoes themselves, the greens are very nutritious -- high in Vitamins C & B6. Just use the leaves as you would spinach or chard, cooked into recipes or simply sautéed on their own. You can eat the young leaves raw as well.
