A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Banter Hall Gardener's Chat I'm gonna' grow some potato vines . . .

With some sweet potatoes.

I figure it's a good, cheap way to get some growth going. Maybe in my planters on the ends of my table garden, and the big barrel I have on one of the lots.

I'll get about 4 sweet potatoes today, sit them in water and wait till they sprout.

Anybody else doing this?

Another cheap idea . . . dried soup mix. We bought a pack of it and didn't like it, so I'm going to throw the rest of the dried mix into a garden patch.

I've done this with dried beans and peas before.

it can work.

I plant the ones with dark foilage.....Just put them in a flower pot about 3 days ago.. They usually grow great in soil.
No leaves on mine yet.

Ohhhhh . . . so you CAN just put them straight into a pot?

My potato (sweet potato) has been in a glass for about 5 days now.

I do ..

cool ~ ill try it!

I put 2 pieces into pots the end of March and 1 is all moldy and the other is just sitting here. I had better luck the last time I did this a few years ago.

I leave mine in water its whole 'life'--I add african violet food to the water----

:ding:

Some folks do.. FOr life.

Your choice.

barb, you are a sweetheart

seems one time in school we cut a potato in half and put toothpicks in the sides and sort of suspended it over a jar of water so roots could form and the plant grew out of the top. I thought actually growing the potatoes was a winter project.

That is possible

Well, there still isn't anything sprouting - we ate one of the yams the other day - one that wasn't in water, I mean - ha ha!

Maybe I'll just pop this thing into the soil in a few days.

LOL COMPOST?

The potato expanded - couldn't get it out of the glass - Jeff through it in the garbage - glass and all.