Unique Hanging Basket Sweet Potato Vine

In a few days you should see roots.

Hanging basket sweet potato vine. Choose a lightweight mix that commercial growers in your area recommend and then add water holding polymer crystals available in any garden center. Leaves are heart-shaped deeply lobed or lacy creating textural interest in the landscape. Ornamental sweet potatoes have large colorful leaves that are.

Torenia Catalina Blue 2. Using a high quality potting mix is vital to successful hanging baskets. For a similar trailing effect you can plant your sweet potato vines in pots or hanging baskets.

The petunias provide plenty of blooms and sweet potato vine offers color from its elegant foliage. Some of our favorite hanging basket plants with great foliage include coleus sweet potato vine dichondra and plectranthus. Many people toss these plants out at the end of summer and replace them each spring at a cost of 3-5 per pot but there is an easy method to overwinter them even in harsh climates.

Plants can also be brought indoors and treated as houseplants. Big petunia varieties are natural partner for sweet potato vine in large hanging baskets. Make a statement with a green-edged petunia such as Pretty much Picasso and a chartreuse sweet potato vine.

This plant produces vine-like stems similar to the philodendron and requires similar care to that of ivy when grown indoors. Pansies Violax wittrockiana in yellow and light purple flow over the side of the basket and contrast with the deep purple of. Create a spring bouquet in the hanging basket with soft pastel colors.

Many potting soils come with them already in the mix Do NOT buy generic or budget potting soil. Sweet potato plants can provide a beautiful low ground cover in planters that will trail out over the edge. This strategy is a good way to overwinter sweet potato vines because they will last all winter in the water and be ready to plant in the spring.