Sweet Potato Vine Indoors

Once these plants have begun to grow robustly indoors they will be ready to transfer to large mixed containers with other plants.

Sweet potato vine indoors.

If you want to grow your sweet potato vines as decorative plants find a small three or four inch seedling pot with good drainage. Overwintering sweet potato tubers. When to plant sweet potato vine. Here s how to enjoy growing this fun vine as a houseplant.

Plant the slips in containers. Most of the time the sweet potato plant is planted in the spring. Overwatering and poor drainage can cause fungal problems such as fusarium wilt root rot or tuber rot. Possible insect problems include sweet potato looper whitefly aphids thrips slugs flea beetles and weevils.

However depending on your growing zone it can be planted at other times of year. Get an organic sweet. If you have space you can simply bring the plants indoors and grow them as houseplants until spring. Sweet potato vine winter care.

Follow these steps to planting and growing your own sweet potato vine indoors. Otherwise there are several easy ways of overwintering a sweet potato vine. The one season in which it s generally not advisable to plant sweet potato vines is the winter. Bulb like tubers grow just beneath the surface of the soil.

Use an organic sweet potato. Plant a sweet potato in water and almost before your eyes it transforms into a sprawling vine with lime green or purple tinged leaves. Grow sweet potato vine indoors and you ll soon have a sprawling vine with lime green or purple tinged leaves.