Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine Tubers For Sale

Commercial sweet potatoes have been bred for over 100 years selecting for those with the best sugar to starch content hence the name sweet potato the ornamental have been bred to produce good leaves and no tubers though they do form they are composed of almost pure starch and no sugar.

Ornamental sweet potato vine tubers for sale.

Blackie ipomoea plant sweet potato vine price 7 25. Grow your own sweet potato vines. The most popular color. Making them a poor choice for eating.

Ipomoea known as sweet potato vine can be grown as a ground cover but a favorite use is as a spiller in combination with other flowers. I understand that they are not the tastiest kinds of sweet potatoes but i would like to save them to plant again in the spring. Sweet potato vine is known for it s trailing growth making it excellent for containers and hanging baskets. Depending on the variety leaves come in bright green dark purple or variegated colors.

It s lovely texture blends well in gardens and can be used as groundcover for all over coverage. I recently pulled out a decorative sweet potato vine as i was cleaning out my planters for the season and found huge tubers under the soil. Ipomoea plants ipomoea plants commonly called sweet potato vines are most often utilized as spillers to cascade from hanging pots or as a ground cover. There are 66 sweet potato vine for sale on etsy and they cost 14 19 on average.