Most of the time the sweet potato plant is planted in the spring.
Sweet potato vine indoors.
Sweet potato vine winter care.
Follow these steps to planting and growing your own sweet potato vine indoors.
Overwintering sweet potato tubers.
Use an organic sweet potato.
Overwatering and poor drainage can cause fungal problems such as fusarium wilt root rot or tuber rot.
If you want to grow your sweet potato vines as decorative plants find a small three or four inch seedling pot with good drainage.
Once these plants have begun to grow robustly indoors they will be ready to transfer to large mixed containers with other plants.
However depending on your growing zone it can be planted at other times of year.
Bulb like tubers grow just beneath the surface of the soil.
As a tropical plant it prefers warmer temperatures.
Possible insect problems include sweet potato looper whitefly aphids thrips slugs flea beetles and weevils.
The one season in which it s generally not advisable to plant sweet potato vines is the winter.
Grow sweet potato vine indoors and you ll soon have a sprawling vine with lime green or purple tinged leaves.
If you have space you can simply bring the plants indoors and grow them as houseplants until spring.
Otherwise there are several easy ways of overwintering a sweet potato vine.
Get an organic sweet.
Even better the leaves are edible and tasty.
When to plant sweet potato vine.
Plant the slips in containers.