Ipomea Sweet Potato Vine Indoors

Turning your sweet potato slips into houseplants.

Ipomea sweet potato vine indoors.

One of the easiest ways to create multi seasonal interest in the garden is to use plants with interesting foliage. Follow these steps to planting and growing your own sweet potato vine indoors. These sprouts can now be turned into all new sweet potato plants. Overwintering sweet potato tubers.

Sweet potato vine ipomoea batatas named for its edible cousin is an ornamental warm season annual grown for its attractive leaves and vining habit the foliage lends a tropical feel to the garden and comes in a range of colors and varying forms. This heat loving perennial will die back if the plant experiences hard freezes below 32 degrees fahrenheit 0 c. When to plant sweet potato vine. With its arrowhead shaped leaves and large tubular flowers sweet potato vine ipomoea batatas makes an attractive addition to gardens within u s.

Ipomoea butatas or sweet potato vine thrives in hot tropical climates and is an ornamental foliage plant often used as a foil for flowering displays. Sweet caroline sweet potato vines are ornamental sweet potato ipomoea batata hybrids with colorful bronze green purple or red foliage. It is said that columbus brought the plant to europe from the new world on his expedition missouri botanical garden though the variety of sweet potato plant that produces the edible tubers can be planted for its trailing vines more recently different variations have been. The foliage is quite decorative and looks lovely grown indoors but you can also transfer the slips to your garden to actually grow your very own sweet potatoes.

If you have space you can simply bring the plants indoors and grow them as houseplants until spring. You ve grown sweet potato slips. How to grow sweet potato vines. They also are popular as indoor plants and can be grown inside year round or just during the cold of winter.

Even better the leaves are edible and tasty. The sweet potato plant or sweet potato vine has been cultivated for around 2 000 years for its sweet tasting tubers. They tend to grow to between 2 and 4 feet tall with a. Sweet potato vine winter care.

Plant a sweet potato in water and almost before your eyes it transforms into a sprawling vine with lime green or purple tinged leaves. Use an organic sweet potato. The one season in which it s generally not advisable to plant sweet potato vines is the winter. Bulb like tubers grow just beneath the surface of the soil.

Department of agriculture hardiness zones 9 to 11. Otherwise there are several easy ways of overwintering a sweet potato vine. However depending on your growing zone it can be planted at other times of year.