How to Grow a Sweet Potato Vine
Sweet potatoes, are actually related to morning glories and can sprout a quick growing vine that will trail beautifully where you train it. Grow a sweet potato vine in a container on your porch or patio, or plant one in a pot right in your house. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Choose a firm sweet potato from the produce section of your grocery store or the local farmer's market. If you find one that has started sprouting, even better.
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Poke four toothpicks into the sweet potato in a cross shape (one on each side) a little over halfway up the sweet potato.
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Fill a mug or jar with water and place the sweet potato in. The toothpicks should suspend the top half of the sweet potato, keeping that half dry.
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Place in a sunny spot and change the water as needed. After several weeks, the vines and leaves will begin to grow.
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Plant your sprouting sweet potato in a pot with soil or in your garden after six to eight weeks. The leaves are beautiful and your plant might even grow some sweet potatoes for you to eat.
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Tips & Warnings
Plant sprouted sweet potatoes in May and you can dig up yummy tubers in the fall.
Resources
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