Sweet Potato Vine Plant Indoors

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.

Sweet potato vine plant indoors.

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. Try growing sweet potato vine indoors. Overwintering sweet potato tubers. Take cuttings several weeks before your average first frost date and place in water.

These sprouts can now be turned into all new sweet potato plants. Sweet potato vines can be overwintered indoors from tubers or cuttings. While it does produce edible sweet potato tubers albeit not very palatable and bitter the ornamental variety bears more colorful foliage making it a popular houseplant. You ve grown sweet potato slips.

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. Sweet potato vine winter care if you have space you can simply bring the plants indoors and grow them as houseplants until spring. Store dormant tubers in a cool dry place and replant in spring.

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. Otherwise there are several easy ways of overwintering a sweet potato vine. They also are popular as indoor plants and can be grown inside year round or just during the cold of winter. Hold the potato so it is vertical and place four to six toothpicks in a circle around the potato about halfway down.

Of all houseplants to grow from kitchen scraps sweet potato vines are probably the fastest growing and the most fun. Grow sweet potato vine indoors and you ll soon have a. Carefully remove the sweet potato from the jar and transfer it into the pot with the roots down. This plant produces vine like stems similar to the philodendron and requires similar care to that of ivy when grown indoors.