Growing Sweet Potato Vine Indoors

If you have space you can simply bring the plants indoors and grow them as houseplants until spring.

Growing sweet potato vine indoors.

Sweet potato vine winter care. This plant produces vine like stems similar to the philodendron and requires similar care to that of ivy when grown indoors. We ve decided to try our hands at growing sweet potatoes we ve really got nothing to lose other than half a potato if we fail. The vigorous growth and drought tolerance of ornamental sweet potato vines makes them great choices for mixed containers and hanging baskets.

Follow these steps to planting and growing your own sweet potato vine indoors. Get an organic sweet. After picking up 3 more large sweet potatoes over the weekend to make more of our own sweet potato dog chews we decided to see if we couldn t try to grow some of our own yes we have lofty dreams of growing bountiful potato vines that supply our natural dog treats. Overwintering sweet potato tubers.

Bulb like tubers grow just beneath the surface of the soil. How to grow sweet potato vines. Plant a sweet potato in water and almost before your eyes it transforms into a sprawling vine with lime green or purple tinged leaves. Both edible and ornamental varieties of sweet potato grow quite well in large pots.

Otherwise there are several easy ways of overwintering a sweet potato vine. It takes 100 to 140 days for sweet potatoes to grow harvestable tubers depending on the variety. Possible insect problems include sweet potato looper whitefly aphids thrips slugs flea beetles and weevils. Overwatering and poor drainage can cause fungal problems such as fusarium wilt root rot or tuber rot.

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 vines can be overwintered indoors from tubers or cuttings. The decorative sweet potato vine ipomoea batatas is a vigorous fast growing vine that does well as a houseplant and as an annual or perennial garden ground cover. Both types grow best in sunny conditions but if you want to grow the garden varieties that produce edible tubers it will take quite a long growing season.

Use an organic sweet potato. Here s how to enjoy growing this fun vine as a houseplant. They also are popular as indoor plants and can be grown inside year round or just during the cold of winter.