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.
Even better the leaves are edible and tasty.
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.
Use an organic sweet potato.
Grow sweet potato vine indoors and you ll soon have a sprawling vine with lime green or purple tinged leaves.
The one season in which it s generally not advisable to plant sweet potato vines is the winter.
Plant the slips in containers.
Possible insect problems include sweet potato looper whitefly aphids thrips slugs flea beetles and weevils.
When to plant sweet potato vine.
Sweet potato vines can be overwintered indoors from tubers or cuttings.
Overwintering sweet potato tubers.
As a tropical plant it prefers warmer temperatures.
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.
If you have space you can simply bring the plants indoors and grow them as houseplants until spring.
Get an organic sweet.
If you want to grow your sweet potato vines as decorative plants find a small three or four inch seedling pot with good drainage.
Here s how to enjoy growing this fun vine as a houseplant.
Sweet potato vine winter care.