Larry, those sweet potatoes that we raised last year were Beauregard. We were raising them to eat so put a soaker hose down in the row before they vined out. Covered the hose with mulch and well, you saw the pics of our construction wheelbarrow piled high with sweets. This year am raising fewer because we got too many taters last year. But sweet potatoes are tough. They have to have water of course. but if you water them you will get a harvest....if the gophers don't get to them.

Dorothy, thanks, I don't have a lot of gophers, but have a ton of moles, crawdad, rabbits and deer.

My sweet potato vines look very nice other than a little insect, deer and rabbit damage. I may have to install an electric fence. The one around my peas seems to be working.

Larry

Rabbits and deer like sweet potato vines too. Human hair and urine are said to repel the deer.

My step dad use to take mom to the beauty shop every Tue., the lady that owned the shop would save the hair and John would pick it up and place it in his garden. He has always had a greater deer problem than I had. I think his old dog and the deer were sleeping on the hair piles.

All the time I lived on the old home place I had a 1" chicken wire/electric fence that worked well to keep out deer and coon. but I did have trouble with crows rats and squirrels. I think squirrels go to school to learn all the tricks they know about stealing food.

Larry

I bet the electric poultry netting that they make for free ranging chickens would work real well to fence out coons, deer and other critters from a garden

Last year I didn't get a single potato from my sweet potatos, which I started from store bought. I had the vines that tried to take over my back yard, and would have, if my dogs didn't eat them for salad everyday! I think it's because they were in shady areas.
This year, I have a bunch of volunteer vines. I decided, since now I have chickens and the vines are a delicacy, to go ahead and let them get big. They make the best greens for chicken food!