Ipomea Sweet Potato Vine Indoors

Department of agriculture hardiness zones 9 to 11.

Ipomea sweet potato vine indoors.

If you have space you can simply bring the plants indoors and grow them as houseplants until spring. Plant a sweet potato in water and almost before your eyes it transforms into a sprawling vine with lime green or purple tinged leaves. 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. 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.

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. These sprouts can now be turned into all new sweet potato plants. The sweet potato plant or sweet potato vine has been cultivated for around 2 000 years for its sweet tasting tubers. The one season in which it s generally not advisable to plant sweet potato vines is the winter.

You ve grown sweet potato slips. Follow these steps to planting and growing your own sweet potato vine indoors. 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. Overwintering sweet potato tubers.

Most of the time the sweet potato plant is planted in the spring. 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. Use an organic sweet potato.

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. However depending on your growing zone it can be planted at other times of year. Sweet caroline sweet potato vines are ornamental sweet potato ipomoea batata hybrids with colorful bronze green purple or red foliage. As a tropical plant it prefers warmer temperatures.

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. This heat loving perennial will die back if the plant experiences hard freezes below 32 degrees fahrenheit 0 c. Turning your sweet potato slips into houseplants.

Bulb like tubers grow just beneath the surface of the soil. Sweet potato vine winter care. How to grow sweet potato vines.