Growing Sweet Potato Vine Indoors

It takes 100 to 140 days for sweet potatoes to grow harvestable tubers depending on the variety.

Growing sweet potato vine 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. Use an organic sweet potato. Otherwise there are several easy ways of overwintering a sweet potato vine. Plant a sweet potato in water and almost before your eyes it transforms into a sprawling vine with lime green or purple tinged leaves.

Warning do not leave the same water in your jar for more than two weeks as it will become foul smelling and will attract fruit flies and other pests. Here s how to enjoy growing this fun vine as a houseplant. 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. 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. Possible insect problems include sweet potato looper whitefly aphids thrips slugs flea beetles and weevils. Bulb like tubers grow just beneath the surface of the soil. They also are popular as indoor plants and can be grown inside year round or just during the cold of winter.

This plant produces vine like stems similar to the philodendron and requires similar care to that of ivy when grown indoors. 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. How to grow sweet potato vines. Overwintering sweet potato tubers.

Grow sweet potato vine indoors and you ll soon have a sprawling vine with lime green or purple tinged leaves. Sweet potato vine winter care. 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. Overwatering and poor drainage can cause fungal problems such as fusarium wilt root rot or tuber rot.

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. Even better the leaves are edible and tasty. If you have space you can simply bring the plants indoors and grow them as houseplants until spring.