But it was not until the '90s that ornamental sweet potato popularity and availability increased. Now, with their ease of culture, extensive exposure in gardening magazine articles, wide ...

For the summer flower garden, ornamental sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) make a beautiful, dependable addition. They thrive in the intense heat of our summers, and May through August is the ...

Jack Kramer, author of "Bromeliads for Home and Garden," says they’re prized houseplants in Japan and Germany, and he recommends a mix of 1/3 perlite, 1/3 potting soil and 1/3 fir bark.

Like all ornamental sweet potatoes, Sweet Caroline Medusa Green likes fertile, well-drained soil, and that's especially true in the landscape. This usually means incorporating 3 to 4 inches of ...

The newest 2021 Texas Superstar is the ornamental sweet potato vine, Ipomoea batatas. ... Best practice is to plant tubers in different garden areas each year.

Mississippi State University's Truck Crops Branch Experiment Station has several sweet potato vines growing in trial gardens. (Photo by MSU Extension Service/Gary Bachman) When it's hot in the summer ...

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The tubers of ornamental sweet potato vines are edible but most are pretty starchy and not very good for eating. ... Gardening; A potato surprise. Updated: Oct. 27, 2009, 6:08 p.m.

Sweet potatoes can be grown in the home garden. However, since they are tropical in origin, they produce best with both warm days and warm nights. ... While the ornamental cultivars typically produce ...

When pulling some ornamental sweet potato vines recently from one large flower pot, we came upon several large tubers resembling white sweet potatoes. The thought occurred to us that these may be ...

For the summer flower garden, ornamental sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) make a beautiful, dependable addition. They thrive in the intense heat of our summers, and May through August is the ...