Sweet Potato Vine Plant

As the name would imply these plants produce small tubers that can be eaten like common sweet.

Sweet potato vine plant.

Sweet potato vine loves lots of sunlight and does best in the heat of summer. Sweet potato vine plant features one of the most versatile plants around you can grow sweet potato vine in sun or shade and in container gardens landscapes or garden beds and borders. The plant is loved for its colorful chartreuse purple bronze copper or black foliage. Marguerite bold chartreuse green foliage with heart shaped leaves.

Ornamental sweet potato vines ipomoea batatas are classic spiller plants for container gardens. Sweet potato vine ipomoea batatas named for its edible cousin is an ornamental warm season annual grown for its attractive leaves and vining habit. Well draining moist soil is perfect for the sweet potato plant. This beautiful easy to grow herbaceous perennial has long tendrils that tumble over the edges and down the sides of containers.

Caring for sweet potato vine sun. Sweet potato vines are available in a wide array of colors from almost black to chartreuse and there are several different leaf shapes from which to choose. Blackie nearly black foliage with deep cut leaves. Sweet carolina purple dark purple foliage and smaller tubers.

Moderate watering is. Newer varieties of sweet. Sweet potato vine po tay to po tah to. If the ground is soggy for too long its root.

While full sun is ideal sweet potato vines accept partial to full shade as well. The foliage lends a tropical feel to the garden and comes in a range of colors and varying forms. Also a less vigorous grower.