My husband just loves sweet potatoes.
If he could have them with every meal, I think he would. I know sweet potatoes are healthy so I try not to give him too much grief over his love of these tubers. However, I couldn’t help but laugh when we finally found out the cause of our air conditioning problems. For the past few months, we have been noticing that air is not getting from the furnace or the air conditioner into certain rooms. We tried ignoring the issue but it started to get uncomfortable warm in our house this summer so I called up the HVAC professionals. The technician came out, crawled under the house, and then crawled back out with a handful of very pale vines in his hand. He explained that these vines had completely taken over under our house. They had even worked their way into the ductwork and they were the cause of the HVAC issues we had been having. I knew immediately what they are, they are sweet potato vines. Some cut off ends must have found their way under the house and sprouted. By the time the technician was done removing all of the vines, we had over a dozen sweet potatoes and a pile of pale, sun-starved vines as big as a car. Thankfully our ductwork is now vine free and our air conditioner is working great again but I never knew sweet potatoes could do so much damage. Oh, and I saved the sweet potatoes for my husband to eat. I will tell him where they came from after he has them with his dinner. I am also going to make him check under the house every month to make sure the vines don’t come back.