More progress!

It's such a beautiful morning here in Maine. It pains me to be in the house for even a few minutes, but I want to write this post and update you on two things.

First, the sweet potato vine. As you can see when you compare the first and second photos, taken less than a week apart, the vine is experiencing a major growth spurt. Maybe this would have happened anyway, but I've started using very warm water to fill the jar when I change the water daily. I suspect the potato likes this, because who doesn't enjoy nice, warm bath water?

I love the rich purplish-green of the leaves. My sweet potato vine last summer, a purchased one already potted, had pale yellow-green leaves, and I assumed this vine would be the same. Come to find out, the purplish-green leaves are also common for sweet potato vines.

I'm about to try something drastic. Supposedly I can break off one of those shoots (There are three good-sized ones, but only two are showing in this photo), put it in water, and watch roots develop within a few days. That, if it works, will give me two sweet potato vines, the main one and the newbie.

It's going to be painful for me to break off the shoot, because I'll fear I'm dooming it to sudden death. I'm a big girl, though, so I think I can do it.







And here's progress of another sort. This story will become a blog post of its own, a story of frustration and angst and Good Samaritans and, eventually, success (so far).

I hit a major problem when it was time to apply a knitted edging to the garter stitch body of my Potter's Shawl. It's safe to say I wasted at least four days trying to figure out where I was going wrong.

Stay tuned....