Sweet Potato Vine Indoor Care

Even better the leaves are edible and tasty.

Sweet potato vine indoor care.

Grow sweet potato vine indoors and you ll soon have a sprawling vine with lime green or purple tinged leaves. Choose a generously sized planting container with holes in the bottom. Hold the potato so it is vertical and place four to six toothpicks in a circle around the potato about halfway down. All you have to do is acquire sweet potato slips.

Ornamental sweet potato vines are versatile plants that are equally suitable for filling outdoor containers spilling over a wall or covering ground in a landscape bed. Care for sweet potato vines over winter place the container in indirect sunlight and watch for roots to develop within a few days. Of all houseplants to grow from kitchen scraps sweet potato vines are probably the fastest growing and the most fun. Though prolific growers you may fertilize monthly if desired using a general all purpose water soluble fertilizer.

At this point you can leave the container all winter or you can pot them up and enjoy them as indoor plants until spring. Sweet potato vines can be overwintered indoors from tubers or cuttings. Potting your sweet potato vine put a few rocks into the bottom of a medium size clay pot and fill it halfway up with potting soil. While tolerant of drought these plants prefer to be kept moist not soggy.

Get an organic sweet. As with normal potatoes you can grow all new sweet potatoes ipomoea batatas from just a few leftovers. The care of sweet potato plants is similar to most other vining houseplants in the home spending summers outdoors. Carefully remove the sweet potato from the jar and transfer it into the pot with the roots down.

If you ve ever left a sweet potato out long enough you may have noticed it starting to sprout. Store dormant tubers in a cool dry place and replant in spring. Take cuttings several weeks before your average first frost date and place in water. The sweet potato vine needs to be in a well draining soil so that any excess water from rainfall or watering has the opportunity to drain away.

This plant doesn t like sitting in wet soil so if you have this as a houseplant make sure you remove any standing water from around the base after you water it. A clay container will have better air circulation for the roots than a plastic container. Plant a sweet potato in water and almost before your eyes it transforms into a sprawling vine with lime green or purple tinged leaves. Plants can also be brought indoors and treated as houseplants.

Here are some organic sweet potato vine care tips.