{"id":3196,"date":"2013-10-27T16:04:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T23:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=3196"},"modified":"2013-10-27T20:45:06","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T03:45:06","slug":"my-yam-sweet-potato-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=3196","title":{"rendered":"My Yam (Sweet Potato) Harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I planted the yam or sweet potato in my raise bed over 3 months ago when the yam we bought from supermarket sprouted. It has since taken up a big part of the raised bed. So I decided to harvest it to make room for the upcoming winter crop or other edible plants that don&#8217;t take up as much space. Below is a video of my harvest.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xubaF8Dp-c0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t get much new yam out of this crop. I suspected my 6&#8243; raised bed was simply not deep enough for this type of the plant. Should have planted it in a container. But I did manage to harvest lots of leaves, which I later found to have high nutritional value. See this video for someone who has eaten the leaves and lived to tell us about it:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/okZ4jB113C8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a picture of the Yam Leaves dish that my wife cooked up. It&#8217;s sauteed with garlic:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-27-19.41.41.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-27-19.41.41-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Yam Leaves\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-27-19.41.41-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-27-19.41.41-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLessons Learned: <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Plant yam in a container so it doesn&#8217;t compete for soil space.<\/li>\n<li>In addition to the yam root, yam leaves can be harvested and have high nutritional value.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I planted the yam or sweet potato in my raise bed over 3 months ago when the yam we bought from supermarket sprouted. It has since taken up a big part of the raised bed. So I decided to harvest it to make room for the upcoming winter crop or other edible plants that don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/?p=3196\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Yam (Sweet Potato) Harvest<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3196"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3204,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions\/3204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnbyblogging.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}