Spillover
This is my sweet potato vine, after I had already cut it back. It was taking over the deck. You can find sweet potato vine in different colors, from this bright chartreuse to almost a purple black. It loves the sun and even if you forget to water it and the leaves start wilting, it will bounce back quickly after a good soaking. Sweet potato vine is an annual so I plant it new every year. After the season is over and you do your garden clean up, you'll find the actual sweet potato (probably more than one) under the soil. I still haven't tried eating them, I've always thought these were ornamental as opposed to edible. Here's my post on that topic a couple of years ago.
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4 comments:
wow, your vines look so beautiful! *envy*
I keep wondering if I'll ever tire of this beauty. What I love about it is that you can snip off part of a branch, take off some lower leaves and plunk it into an exsisting pot(or part-shade bed). Within a week, it's rooted and you've got another plant. This also works with any Coleus. I'm going to try the "potato" when my mother vine finally says good-bye.
Karen: Thanks again for writing. Well, you'll have to let me know how the potato is. I haven't haven't been able to muster the nerve to try it! --Miriam
If I fail to ever show up again on your wonderful blog, you'll know the outcome :)
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