The leaves and stems are edible; Central American and Oriental cuisines use them.

@journeytohealthafter60

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Hello and thanks for visiting 😊. Yes, my pups and I have been adding them to our meals since they started growing. I havhad any stems, just the leaves. I appreciate your suggestion ☺️. Please keep them coming.

@janemiller2812

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How would you cook it?

@journeytohealthafter60

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@@janemiller2812 Hi Jane, you can sautee as you would spinach, or pop in a salad. I used in my huge daily salad. I also chopoed up n put in my dogs dinner. Be creative, may try an omelette at first to see if you like the taste and texture? Let us know what you did please! 😁

@marylevy3104

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@@janemiller2812 You can stir fry the leaves and stems or use the leaves to wrap a filling instead of grape leaves.

@geecee7450

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They, the young leaves, are a rich source of iron and other minerals essential to our body👍☺️👍

I love Teeny too. I really does something wonderful to see our fur babies interested in whatever we are doing. God is so good to us .

@journeytohealthafter60

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Hi and WELCOME to me journey! Thank you for loven on my baby girl 😍😍😍 I agree God is good, ALL THE TIME 🤗

Sweet potato vines are so pretty, even if you do not get one potato!!!! Of course it is fun to find those taters hidden in the dirt!!!!!

Thank you 😁

@journeytohealthafter60

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You are so very welcome 😁

About a month ago I dug my one sweet potato bed. I’d planted ONE potato and in that bed was over 43# !!! They were set to cure for ten days. They are delicious!! Let the vines die back before harvesting…the leaves can be cooked like spinach…

@journeytohealthafter60

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OH WOW, that is FANTASTIC!!!!!

You did an amazing job! Those vines are GORGIOUS and yummy tubers to boot! It looks like you may have planted a full or piece of a potato? You may already know this, but here is a little tip if you don't. If you grow the slips, one sweet potato can fill a garden. A few weeks before you want to plant, just place one whole potato in water like an avocado pit, making sure the bottom always touches the water. Or place one in a small clear storage container with moist rooting mix (only cover about 1/3 of the potato horizontally in the mix - most prolific method) and cover. This will give you a ton of growing vines (called slips) that will root and you plant those instead of a full sweet potato. They propagate a bit differently than regular potatoes, but they are a HUGE crop from one tiny plant. They can also be grown in grow bags with very good success or make your own with landscaping fabric. These can be moved where ever you want them. There are also a number of much more flavorful types as well. Okinawa is another purple flesh but light beige to tan outside. The Asian types are absolutely delicious! They are tasty all by themselves and make WONDERFUL pies AND fries! ;)

I enjoyed your sweet potato harvest. I talk to myself, too. I think we're ok. 😜 Blessings!

@journeytohealthafter60

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Hello hello and hello lol talking to all 4 of us hahaha we are no doubt our own best listener after all 🤷‍♀️

Hi Kathy 1st time here I have really enjoyed this sweet potato harvest. Not only that I have a new friend and a new channel to watch and thank you so much for sharing.

@journeytohealthafter60

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Thank you, Wendy, so much for visiting today and for calling me "friend", what an honor 😊🤗. I look forward to getting to know you.

Wow! Great results in the cardboard boxes. I am going to try this method. We have heavy clay soil , so I think the cardboard box is a good idea. Most impressive! ❤

@journeytohealthafter60

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Awww thank you!! I, too, have heavy clay soil, so I completely agree with you. So looking fwd to this coming spring. I AM ALREADY EYEBALLING BOXES AS CHRISTMAS gifts come in, hahahahaha

Thanks for sharing it was fun to watch how excited you got.i am thinking of starting a garden myself so i am soaking up any information i get.good luck next time around .God blessings on you.i am watching from Anguilla in tje west indies.

Awesome

@journeytohealthafter60

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Thank you so much, next year I plan to video all the methods. So excited I can't wait! 🙏🌻🌻

Thank you for sharing…wish we could have seen it. The camera is way to far away 😞 You sound excited 👏😀

@journeytohealthafter60

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So sorry 😥 you had a hard time seeing. I will do better it was first video I ever made lol I hope you saw all the pictures at the end which showed all my taters 😁. Yes, extremely excited. Much appreciate your watching. Thank you 😁

I would blanch and freeze all of the prettiest leaves for Luscious greens over the winter. I would have been eating the young leaves in salads all summer, too.

@journeytohealthafter60

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I was doing that with Malabar Spinach lol that is so amazing I had to find ways to keep my dogs from eating it all. I froze a bunch and canned a bunch. YUM!

You were talking to yourself, and I was answering. I think I've gone nuts.

@journeytohealthafter60

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Hahahaha PLEASE talk to me hahaha it makes both of us look less insane. Living alone so long I can have entire conversations with me getting the answers I like hahahaha you made me giggle THANK YOU!!

As the leaves are still very green,perhaps you could have waited for another month and a half to make those sweet potatoes grow bigger. Try next time cause some wait till the leaves starts to turn yellow before they harvest. 😄

@journeytohealthafter60

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Hello, thank you for your suggestion. The reason I did it when I did was we were expa frost. I am in Iowa and unfortunately get fairly early frosts. I am alone in this journey and have quite a bit to do. It was take down potatoes first, then on to picking tomatoes I didn't want to lose and peppers. I DEFINITELY picked the first 2 WAY too early. Next season, I will do better as I have learned a lot. Are you in the midwest? When do you plant, then harvest?

@user-jz1hf9ki5l

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@@journeytohealthafter60 вы можете укрыть их от мороза плёнкой и продлить время вегетации! После первых морозов, обычно опять бывает тепло. Можно лозы сажать раньше под укрытие и собирать позже с укрытием. Вы можете выиграть целый месяц времени.)) И мне показалось, что посадили батат не на солнечной стороне участка. Ему нужно много солнца...

Sweet potatoes are one of my favorite things to grow. Enjoy your bounty.

@journeytohealthafter60

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Awww thank you. I am waiting for a cold day to cook one and relish it it lol 😆 😋

Im so proud of you and I'm happy for you too. I subscribed. This is my 1st video with you!

@journeytohealthafter60

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Oh my THANK YOU how sweet 🤗☺

Very interesting. I'm planning to grow sweet potatoes. This gives me a heads up. Thank you so much for sharing your experience.

@journeytohealthafter60

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Hi Lucy, You're so very welcome! Go for it. It was fun. I did 3 different experiments and learned so much. I will do it again this next spring. However, I will be doing more slips I grow myself starting this winter and 3 different types of containers. Cardboard box, grow bag, and lg planter. Planted at the same time same and this time watered more frequently. Another fun experiment, I hope you come back to follow along. 😊 Thank you, Cathy

Excellent video thanks for sharing cheers

@journeytohealthafter60

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Thank you so much! Please join in May of 2023 to follow from start to finish with weekly updates. Grow bag, planter or cardboard box, which will do better?

I love how excited you got! It's definitely an accomplishment and something to be proud of! Also, Teeny is so cute :-)

@journeytohealthafter60

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Thank you very much, it was honestly a really fun and exciting project. I look fwd to next spring.

It’s best to leave them until the vines start dying back. It’s also better to clip the vines a few days before you harvest and before it rains. That will help toughen the skin a bit. Let them cure in a dry warm place out of the sun for a couple weeks. That allows the carbs to turn into sugar. Don’t wash until you cook. We grow about 25 sets every year. A couple little things, the small young leaves are great in a salad and the fresh little shoots are great to stir fry. The Asian people taught me that many years ago, and trust me it’s worth a try ! They thrive on potash. If you burn a fire save the ashes before they get wet and mix a good bit in the soil along with a good 10-10-10 when you plan. Then after they’re up and start running dress some more ash in, then let them go. Keep them watered even if you think they don’t need it. The vines are really drought resistant but the taters need water. They also need FULL sun for best yields. Hope this helps. 😊

@journeytohealthafter60

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Thank you 😊

I know the excitement 🏡🧑🏾‍🌾💪🏾💜. Thank you for sharing.

Greetings from Down Under! By the happiest of coincidences I happened upon your channel and loved the name you chose for it. It sums up my garden philosophy as a late bloomer. I too like to use cardboard in the garden to build no-dig beds but your use of the unflattened box is genius. I too have a dog and leave him the free run of both an upper and lower lawn in our backyard. I have two sweet potato seedlings that I have left nearly too long in their small containers, so tomorrow at sparrow fart (Aussie for "very early in the morning"" as we are coming up on Summer next month) I will follow your lead and let you know how I go. I am now a very happy subscriber, even before finishing the video. Cheers!

@journeytohealthafter60

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Hello Craig and WELCOME from Iowa USA!!! So pleased to meet you. I am extremely excited you're coming along on this journey with me. It was a fantastic summer learning to plant , nurture, and grow my own food. I ran out of money to buy gardening pots n bags, thus resorted to my amazon boxes, hahaha. It went so well I am saving more in the garage and doing it again next string. Never know what trouble I can get into in a garden. Come on back and follow along with me as I make mistakes so you can avoid them, 😆 😂 Till then, Cathy

Sweet! 👍

@journeytohealthafter60

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Thank you very much

Don’t forget to eat the greens!

@journeytohealthafter60

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Oh yes, yummy we had our share all summer in our salads and omelets. My dogs absolutely loved them chopped up in their dinners.

for the best harvest you supposed to wait until the leaves die back. then you will have a huge pile of sweet potatos.😋😁

@journeytohealthafter60

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Yes I understand this however we had a freeze coming through the next2 plus nights and I would have lost them had I not pulled them.That's why is was so windyvthcold front was on our door step a knocking. Next year 😁. Planted sooner n thus longer season 🙏 God willing! However iwas a really fun experiment. I already have a nice big box picked out. Thank you for watching and offering up help and having my back. 😁😊

You harvest them too soon. If you would a harvest them later. They’d be much bigger. You can also eat the leaves ,stems and flowers. Great in a stirfry ,soup or a salad. Once you harvest your regular and sweet potatoes. Take the biggest nicest one. Then replant at the same time you’re harvesting. Work smarter not harder. If you’re not gonna eat the greens give them to the chickens they love them and it’s so good for them.

@journeytohealthafter60

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I harvested them as we were going to have a freeze for 3 days. I was told if i replant these very harsh winters would freeze them root the potato? We did eat the leaves all summer. I don't have chickens lol I live in a city that doesn't allow us to have them, unfortunately. However, I did put them back in the new box I set aside for next year and mixed them in with the soil. I was pretty short on time it went down to 20 that night, and then 14 the next night. Crazy Iowa weather. Any hints to start slips? I do have the sweet potatoes in my basement I planned on using them.

Wow, those look amazing! ❤️👍

@journeytohealthafter60

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Hello and THANK YOU so much it truly for me was like Christmas! So looking forward to next season. Can't wait to get my slips started in January from these very potatoes 😁

Really cool! We plan to try sweet potatoes this spring. Idk if they will do anything but growing slips now and may try in greenhouse or under grow lights. Thanks for sharing! The cardboard box idea is kinda cool!

@journeytohealthafter60

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Thank you so much, it was really fun. I am so looking fwd to next spring I plan to try the 3 methods again however will document all of them and wait longer to harvest. I hope you come back and follow my journey too. Thank you

Nice, hope I will be successful when I get the courage to try🙋‍♀️

@journeytohealthafter60

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Hello!!! I will do this again come May, come along with me we will do it together. Start thinking about which box you want to use and save it. Maybe grab a bag of quality soil to set aside. Look for a good healthy sweet potato while shopping too. See you in May 🙏😁

Was that Teeny making that snoring noise on and off through the whole video? Cute!

@journeytohealthafter60

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Hahaha, YES bless her lil soul. Poor dog has had several surgeries yet still struggles to breathe. She is a true sweet heart and wonderful girl 🙏😁💔🥰😍

Awesome ❣️

@journeytohealthafter60

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Thank you so much!

👍🙂

Thanks for sharing your success with your spuds. Going to try to grow them this year.💚🌷💛

@journeytohealthafter60

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You will LOVE it! I am so excited to try this again but on a grander scale. I will do all 3 again. Grow bag, lg plastic barrel container AND the cardboard box. Thank you for watching and we will do this together next year. We've got this!

Such a beautiful yard. I live in an apartment with no yard. I was able to use a couple of containers and grow a few things on the porch. My sweet potatoes were punny. 😔

@journeytohealthafter60

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Hello,"punny," huh? Maybe they didn't grow long enough? I learned this past summer that the longer the better, so next season, I will be planting the slips early May. Follow along and ask questions I will try n answer best I can. Try and get a 5 gallon food grade buck ftom hardware store and you will have better success, I promise.

Loved this. I'm grading in Victoria, Australia where we are coming up to summer. I have some sweet potato plants in a pot and have been thinking about where and how to plant them. I was looking at grow bags at the hardware store and they are expensive. I can get big cardboard boxes from the same hardware store for nothing, so that is what I will do. Thank you and cheers.

@journeytohealthafter60

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AWESOME look how resourceful YOU are, 3 cheers your way from USA

Nice taters!!!! You need a tater rake to help dig, just have to be careful not to stab the taters!! I use tater rake in the garden for digging up reds and white potatoes. I also grew sweet taters for the first time this year but grew them in 5 gallon buckets. I got a small harvest and was tickled pink!!!

@journeytohealthafter60

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Hello....a tater rake hmmmm need to look onto that 😁. It really is exciting isn't it? So looking fwd to this coming spring to expand to bigger boxes hahaha and a few more slips too. I love experimenting.

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😘

@journeytohealthafter60

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I absolutely love your youtube handle !!!

@planecrazyish

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@@journeytohealthafter60 Thank you 😄😘

That is wonderful seeing the potatoes with you. I was anxous and excited along with you. Could you do a video how you grew them in a cardbox please? And what type of soil you used? I want to try it next spring.

@journeytohealthafter60

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YES! I will be video taping the process....follow along. I live in Iowa so will start in May to plant HOWEVER, will start taping from slips fwd so come along with me. Keep an eye out for a good, strong cardboard box. I used am amazon box, honestly. It needs to be deep enough to allow growth DOWNWARD. Say a good foot or so........let's DO THIS I can't wait 😁😇😍

Digging up any potato is such fun. You could leave the tubers in the ground until just before your first frost. They will continue to grow. You can make your own slips starting Jan , Feb. . Plant them out mid May or early June. They need a long hot summer. I don't know your growing zone so all info may not be right. I simply put in Iowa. The potatoes take from 90 to 120 days but as mentioned you can leave them in longer. A good indicator as when to harvest would be when the vines yellows and starts to die back. You might try raised bed for the next round of potatoes. Happy Gardening from Zone 9B!

@journeytohealthafter60

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Hello 😁, Thank you for all your awesome suggestions. It was so fun. I am in zone 5B. I pulled them as a freeze was coming the next day for 3 days. I definitely did not plant them soon enough it was into June. I pulled my others one in grow bags n pots WAY to early due to impatience lol . I will be much more patient this coming season hahahaha I seriously was totally ignorant to what I was doing. However, learned so much. This coming season I will document from slips to harvest if you wish to follow along. Till then, Cathy

Teeny tells Tater that Mama buried bones that grew called sweet taters so Tater had to see what all the fuss was about it. Will definately try ty!

@journeytohealthafter60

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OMG hahahaha I absolutely LOVE your take on my girls!! I was concshe would take off with them lol bulldogs are food hounds , tryst me. Thank you for stopping by 🤗

I’m so happy for u! I just planted a few slips in a cardboard box this week. I hope I have a good harvest like u in 3 months or so, too! Would u say u got a potato per slip planted?

I do talk to my self very often.

@journeytohealthafter60

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Well, it seems I'm not the only person who has their very own bestie 😁

Sweet potato's leaves also can eat

I talk to myself. Going to try boxes also. But, going to fill the boxes with plastic first. Then soil.

@journeytohealthafter60

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My potatoes being sweet potatoes grow down not up like starch potatoes thus I did grass clipping. If you do sweet potatoes you may think about possibly hay, grass clipping or mulch.

Don't know if you know but the leaves are also edible.

@journeytohealthafter60

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Hello Deborah, welcome. Yes, we enjoyed them all summer in salads and omelets. My dogs would help the.selves hahaha. The Malabar Spinach was their favorite 😍 😋 Thank you, Cathy 😁

Can you do a video on how you planted them

@journeytohealthafter60

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Yes, I am going to video the entire process this coming season. You can follow so you can do it, too. I am going to use bigger boxes as these went through the bottom. LOL live and learn, right? Joy me we will have fun. I will do this in early May 2023. I will start my slips this winter fyi so I am READY come May. I will video that too. Sooooo much coming.

Nice! I’m going to try them next year. Did you start your own slips? If so, what was your method? Thank you

@journeytohealthafter60

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Hello Deanna, I did start my own slips. I put half a potato in dirt in window. Had no clue what I was doing hahaha! So not bad from putting a potato in dirt huh? It will go different this next season. Bigger box and only rooted slips. I plan to put about 6 slips in each box. Aren't experiments fun?? Come on back n follow along I will documallv3 methods box, cloth bag and lg planter.

I live in a condo and am thinking of using grow bags but am wondering if they will yield much. Struggling to start my health journey. Reading, watching lots of good info but struggling with consistency. Also started canning.

@journeytohealthafter60

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Hello Olivia, Welcome to my journey as well. Please ask anything you wish. I have used grow bags, pots, cardboard boxes and my own soil so I am quite an explorer. From the grow bags I did yield sweet potatoes however I did not allow them to grow long enough so will be leaving them in longer this coming season. However, if you are putting the grow bag on a patio, I feel it would leak and cause a water issue. I think you would do better with a 5-gallon food grade bucket. Put holes in the bottom and set it on something to catch the water. I hope that helps. We all struggle so don't beat yourself up, please. We live life one moment at a time so give yourself some grace. When i catch myself not "living" just "surviving", I literally say aloud, Cathy get up and LIVE. I usually will get up and get it in gear. I find myself looking for something to can or a plant to attend to and sometimes will tell myself...GO for a walk. Living alone can be challenging as I am accountable to no one but me and it would be so easy to be very lazy. LOL Blessings your way! Cathy

I planted 1 sweet potatoe bought at the garden centre in June for £5 & l did not reap 1 sweet potatoe

@journeytohealthafter60

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Oh no Iso very sorry. So this coming season, I think if you get another sweet potato and allow it to grow inside in a jar of water . Once it starts to grow "slips" you can then let them root in water. By the time your growing season rolls around, the "slips" will be ready to plant. I promise you WILL get sweet potatoes. I will be filming my journey doing just that from picking a box to growing slips from my potatoes from last season. Come along on this journey with us. 🙏 together, we will be digging up tons of sweet potatoes . Join the journey, Cathy

@johnshafer998

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Many in the grocery store are treated so they won't sprout. It's also so you can't grow them at home and it is a nasty trick! Buy them either organic or from a fruit stand. Gently wash them with a mild soap, being careful not to damage the surface. Then place tubers in water like an avocado pit, keeping the bottom of the tuber in the water at all times. You will begin to see roots forming in the water and growth from the eyes, above the water. They will form vines that you twist off at the potato surface level, as close as you can to the base. Place these in water if they don't already have roots and they will root. As soon as they have roots, and it is well past LFD, plant in rich well draining soil. They will produce LOTS!

@journeytohealthafter60

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Thank you, John, such awesome informative info to help us get rolling. The potatoes I planted that I grew from came from local stores. I guess I was lucky. This coming season, I am going to use the sweet paters I grew 🙏😁😊

I live with cats. I talk to myself.

@journeytohealthafter60

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LOL I totally relate hahaha I think I am looking to do a series on concurring loneliness

How long does it take from planting

@katykaty6415

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To harvest

@journeytohealthafter60

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90 to 120 days

Everyone should grow sweet potatoes, they are very easy to grow, disease resistant and provide good food when our govn. is destroying farmer's right now..

@journeytohealthafter60

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YES I completely AGREE!

You're doing a good job, but please don't use the Name of the Lord in vain. Thank you. Happy gardening.