Sweet Potato Vine Indoors

Grow sweet potato vine indoors and you ll soon have a sprawling vine with lime green or purple tinged leaves.

Sweet potato vine indoors.

Sweet potato vine winter care. Overwatering and poor drainage can cause fungal problems such as fusarium wilt root rot or tuber rot. When to plant sweet potato vine. Get an organic sweet.

If you have space you can simply bring the plants indoors and grow them as houseplants until spring. Use an organic sweet potato. Sweet potato vines can be overwintered indoors from tubers or cuttings. Otherwise there are several easy ways of overwintering a sweet potato vine.

Once these plants have begun to grow robustly indoors they will be ready to transfer to large mixed containers with other plants. Possible insect problems include sweet potato looper whitefly aphids thrips slugs flea beetles and weevils. Most of the time the sweet potato plant is planted in the spring. Bulb like tubers grow just beneath the surface of the soil.

Plant a sweet potato in water and almost before your eyes it transforms into a sprawling vine with lime green or purple tinged leaves. Overwintering sweet potato tubers. As a tropical plant it prefers warmer temperatures. Plant the slips in containers.

If you want to grow your sweet potato vines as decorative plants find a small three or four inch seedling pot with good drainage. The one season in which it s generally not advisable to plant sweet potato vines is the winter. Even better the leaves are edible and tasty.