Yes, sweet potato vines grown from edible sweet potato varieties will produce edible sweet potatoes. To turn your vines into a crop of tasty tubers, plant them outside in May, and you can dig up the sweet potatoes from underground in late fall, when they'll be ready to eat.
Can you replant sweet potato vine tubers?
Sweet Potato Vine Tubers The fleshy tuber stores nutrients, water and genetic material for the plant. Each growing season, the plant creates new tubers. A simple way to propagate sweet potato vine plants is to divide the tubers and replant them in the soil. Each section will grow a new plant.
Can I grow sweet potatoes from vines?
Cut 4-to 12-inch sections of stem from the tips of the sweet potato vines. Make cuttings about 4 inches long if you will root them in a container and longer if you will root them in the ground. Make a clean cut just above a leaf or junction with another branch of the stem.
Can you eat the potatoes from ornamental sweet potato vines?
The bottom line is that ornamental sweet potatoes are bred specifically for their foliage, whether it be bright purple or vivid green. They produce fleshy, tuberous roots like their edible counterparts, but the quality of the tubers is generally not suitable for eating.
Do potato vines produce potatoes?
Certain varieties of potato vines and sweet potato vines (Ipomoea batatas, which thrives in USDA growing zones 9 to 11) are grown as food crops, while others are for ornamental purposes. Most sweet potato vines produce potatoes (they are actually called tubers).
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