Purple Sweet Potato Vine Indoors

I ve been growing a ton of slips in the home in order to transplant outdoors in my community garden.

Purple sweet potato vine indoors. At this point you can leave the container all winter or you can pot them up and enjoy them as indoor plants until spring. Even better the leaves are edible and tasty. Also a less vigorous grower. If it s one tuber i love it s the purple sweet potato.

Planted in the ground sweet potato vine serves as a ground cover or sprawls along the border of. They tend to grow to between 2 and 4 feet tall with a. Grow sweet potato vine indoors and you ll soon have a sprawling vine with lime green or purple tinged leaves. While the ornamental sweet potato plants don t often flower when blackie does it produces lavender or purple trumpet like flowers.

Sweet potato vines can be overwintered indoors from tubers or cuttings. Sweet caroline sweet potato vines are ornamental sweet potato ipomoea batata hybrids with colorful bronze green purple or red foliage. It is noted that the first purple sweet potato was bred by the japanese and grown specifically on okinawa hence its name. Get an organic sweet.

Take cuttings several weeks before your average first frost date and place in water. The purple potato made its way to hawaii and then to the u s. These purple sweet potato vines are so dark that they are nearly black hence their name. This vigorous and fast growing cultivar is a popular variety which is known for its maple like leaf shape.

When growing ornamental sweet potato vines there are a number of varieties to choose from. Hawaiian sweet potato which is a variety called okinawan but is commonly called purple yam japanese purple potato or japanese sweet potato. Care for sweet potato vines over winter place the container in indirect sunlight and watch for roots to develop within a few days. Popular types of ornamental sweet potatoes include.

Of all houseplants to grow from kitchen scraps sweet potato vines are probably the fastest growing and the most fun. Sweet carolina purple dark purple foliage and smaller tubers. Plant a sweet potato in water and almost before your eyes it transforms into a sprawling vine with lime green or purple tinged leaves. Here s how to enjoy growing this fun vine as a houseplant.