Mama Kat Thursday: Something New I'm Trying

The Mama Kat prompt topic today is:

 "Write about a time you tried something new."

For a gardner, "trying something new" is a life motto.
I'm know I'm always have some sort of gardening experiment going on!

I currently have two new garden somethings underway:

My Suckers in a Pot

#1)  I'm trying out growing a new tomato plant from a pair of suckers I snipped off my older tomato plants, which haven't really thrived this year. 

My hope is a fall harvest of tomatoes, perhaps on a happier plant.

I saw this idea of growing tomato suckers on Pinterest and thought, "Why not?"

Sweet Potato in My Potato Bag

#2)  I bought a "potato bag," for growing a potato in, on sale from Park Seed earlier this spring that I was determined to use.
My efforts to get a red potato to sprout failed. (Though, the buggers sprout often enough when I don't want them to!)

Not to be deterred,  I put a sweet potato slip in water, rooted it, then planted that in mid-June.
Here it is in the potato bag in the photo above.
The bag has a see-through velco window for accessing the underground tubers, particularly for regular potatoes. 

I've never grown a sweet potato before, but I've discovered it delightfully easy and beautiful--since it blooms lovely lavender flowers!

I think I may have to have one every year.

(Picture of a sweet potato flower here, in yesterdays Garden Pic Blog post!)

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So what was the "new thing" you've tried this year? In the garden or anywhere.

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