I fell in love with sweet potatoes. no not just for eating-I've never liked them! for foliage.
i bought white sweet potatoes last year. yes, they are mealier, not the slick smoothness i hate in the orange types.I planted a few in the garden and threw the rest into the edge of a flower bed( full of old gravel!) where they went into viny loveliness. i am enchanted. Actually, the flower bed produced more tubers than the garden! ( this year, I have prepped the bed with sand for the sweet potatoes. we'll see!)
so I don;t buy the fancy sweet potatoes for foliage; I just plant my regular ones. Cool!And i even found a way i like to eat them-sliced up, fried or baked into chips, dusted with cinnamon and served with mustard sauce (mustard and mayo mixed)
Latest experiment-starting slips. I put one half tuber in wet sand, one half in a glass of water balanced on toohpicks, and just planted one in a pot. that one has become a foliage plant for my deck, though I could cut slips. the sand, surprisingly has produced slips much faster than the water treatment. At just a few inches you pull them, put the lower ends in water, and plant as soon as roots are growing-no longer than 2 inches,hopefully planting after the soil and air are good and warm. they'll grow until frost!
shoot the darn things want to grow! and they come in several colors! too good to be true!
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