Autumn is here!

[Double Lab]

Originally Posted by Stan Hillis

From one baked sweet potato lover to another, you owe it to yourself to find some Orleans variety 'taters. My buddy in E. Arkansas grows them for the market and I can't wait to get a box full to bring back to Jawja every winter! Orleans are just head and shoulders above the rest.

Stan, sweet potatoes are all I eat. What makes the E. Arkansas taters different?

[Mike of the Mountain]

Originally Posted by Phil Yearout

PS: I know it wasn't really the first day of fall, but September is always fall to me, no matter what the calendar says !

I'm with you Phil. Our leaves are already turning up here so in my opinion, Fall is here. In one month we'll be sitting in trees.

[Mike of the Mountain]

Originally Posted by Daryl Corona

Stan, sweet potatoes are all I eat. What makes the E. Arkansas taters different?

I'll take sweet taters over regular taters any day.

[Researcher]

Fall? What's that? 95 degrees here today.

[mobirdhunter]

I’ll take mine baked into a pie, please!

[Stan Hillis]

Originally Posted by Daryl Corona

Stan, sweet potatoes are all I eat. What makes the E. Arkansas taters different?

It's the variety they grow, Daryl, the Orleans variety. First year they grew sweet potatoes they grew half the acreage in another variety and gave me a box of each to take home, with instructions to compare them and let him know what we thought. There was no contest. The Orleans was "creamier", almost like a soufflé in the hull. They also have no "stringiness", unlike all other store bought ones I've ever tried.

I think it's amazing how my friends went from never having grown sweet potatoes to planting 600 acres the first year. They continue to grow them so I assume it has been a profitable venture. Very labor intensive and expensive, crop to harvest, though.

[Phil Yearout]

I don't think my local Kroger affiliate (Dillons) carries them

[TOOL MAN]

Originally Posted by Dave Noreen

Fall? What's that? 95 degrees here today.

I'm right there with you Dave!! Autumn....SCHMAUTUMN!! You guys always want to hit the fast-forward button on summer. Hey, I cherish autumn too, but the "REEL" fishing in the words of Karen Carpenter, has only just begun. I won't surrender until the third week of October.

Saturday morning we were enveloped in a fog bank for a good thirty minutes before the sun re-emerged. It was ethereal. My kind of sunrise service!!

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