Perk up that bare kitchen window with a sweet potato vine. Place a sweet potato in a vase or glass, holding it up with three toothpicks so it doesn't fall to the bottom of the vase. When it sprouts, the sprouts will grow straight up until their weight causes them to fall over. You will have to fasten them with string or yarn to get the runners to go where you want them to grow. Be sure to keep it watered.
They will grow wherever you direct them. I had one in my office and it went up in the corner and around the side of the room, and then I directed it back the way it came. I've been told the runners could be planted so you could grow your own sweet potatoes, but I've never tried that. Also, it is educational for little children to see it grow.
Source: My mother had a sweet potato vine in our kitchen window in 1939, and many times after that.
By Clynn Altemus from Inglis, FL
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I have a sweet potatoe growing but not very bushy. There are really long runners with leaves every 6 to 8 inches. Then small leaves sprouted on potatoe. Should i cut off long runners to make the other bush more or grow more stems
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