Autumn is here. In fact this photo is from a week ago. Today winter is approaching fast, and I went out into the rain and storm to see to things in my garden. On the soil of one of the planting  boxes outside, I had placed the pot with the sweet potato plant. I started to take care of the withered plant, cut it by the soil and sorted it into the compost.

Then I wanted to dig out the soil from the pot – and stopped dead! My God, there was something in the pot, something big!

The impossible had happened! I had in fact grown sweet potatoes, in an ordinary pot that had been standing on a bench in the sun all summer. All books, instructions, articles say you can grow the plant and get a nice flowering plant, but to harvest sweet potato like this is impossible. The season in Sweden is too short and too cold.

 

And look at them, they are big – HUGE in fact. The sweet potatoes I buy at the grocery store are not this big. I could hardly hold them in one hand. Two of the three potatoes measure nearly four inches (10 cm).

 

This will be a nice dinner for two. I will clean them, peel them, cut them into cloves, put on a baking tray with some olive oil and salt and cook for about 15 minutes in 350 degrees Fahrenheit (175 degrees Celsius). I will serve them with som feta cheese and sprinkle persil from the garden on top. Mm, looking forward to that!