Yes, You can do that. They seem to like to wait until late May/early June before they wake up though.

Lynn

I just took cuttings from my tricolor, black, and green SPVs and am rooting them with intentions of putting them in hanging pots once I dump the annuals in them outside.
I'm trying to be more realistic about what I can bring in this year.

Are these sweet potatoes edible? We have about a dozen of them from the vines we planted this year.

A few years back I read that the potatoes were edible so baked a few. They tasted awful!
Bobbie

I've overwintered one for two years. It got to be the size of a small canteloupe. Year three it rotted in my basement.

I was hoping to repeat my success with a new, vigorous plant I purchsed this summer. But when I dug it up, there wasn't a tuber. All I found were pink roots.

Yeah- I have had that happen too- no tuber to be found. I wonder if there was too much competition for root space- or too much fertilizer making the plant pump out top growth only....
This year, I am bringing in the whole containers and croping them and putting them undisturbed, into a cool dark place till spring. This works well for calla, caladiums, colcasias, alocasias and daturas for me. I will water the pots once a month or two just to keep them just this side of bone dry. I am hoping that they will decide to show themselves sometime in the summer. I have found when I have cleaned and stored the bare roots/tubers- they did not perform well at all- if they made it through the winter.
They really like it warm- even more so than caladiums. They take a long time to snap out of dormancy and barely seem to get started again when the frost hits em again.
Even though I do try to keep em going- I find I buy them new in the spring if I want to see them shine. I wish there was a tried and true way I could share with you...

Julie

Hi,

I have grown sweet potato vines, Marguerite and Blackie varieties, in planters for several years, but only once got a tuber. This year I planted 6 each of them in a very large raised bed filled with loamy soal very rich in organic matter. As I cleared away the dead vines today, I saw several tubers peeking out from the mulch, and realized that all 12 plants had very large, multiple tubers of a magenta color. Some of the tubers are over 8 inches in diameter at the widest point. I've now got them in containers surrounded by wood shavings, hoping to overwinter them in my basement and garage. Should I plant each tuber whole in the spring? What depth? Any other tips I should know? Thanks.

JJ