Saturday, August 7, 2010

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:

  1. Mary C.August 17, 2010 at 1:12 PM

    wow, your vines look so beautiful! *envy*

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  2. KarenOctober 25, 2011 at 11:11 AM

    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.

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  3. MiriamOctober 25, 2011 at 11:52 AM

    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

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  4. KarenOctober 27, 2011 at 2:49 PM

    If I fail to ever show up again on your wonderful blog, you'll know the outcome :)

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