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Is the juice from a sweet potato vine poisonous to pets?
are sweet potato vines toxic to house cats?
Can pigs eat sweet potato vines?
I doubt it.
What is a ipomoea vine plant?
Ipomoea is a sweet potato plant that is grown for it colorful vines, it does not produce sweet potatoes.
How does a sweet potato grow?
Sweet potatoes grow best with compost and an organic potato food will increase their size. I start mine from sweet potatoes rooted in water in the winter. When the vines grow from the potatoes, I cut them off the tuber and root them in water. I then plant these rooted vines in the garden after all danger of frost is past and given about 100 days to grow, they will produce new sweet potatoes. The last month or so, do not water the potato vines and this will increase the size of the new tubers.
Is sweet potato plant climber or creeper?
There are several plants called sweet potato, all are scramblers/vines/climbers - even a climber can't climb if there is nothing to climb up.
Is there any difference between Sweet Potato Vine - Batata - with heart-shaped leaves and purple to black skin and the vine from the edible tuberous root of the sweet potato?
Probably not. I have included two web links to help you make sure. See the related links below. There is also a vine called Potato Vine which is a member of the Solanum family and it is toxic, as are the vines of the sweet potato.
What do potatoes need to grow?
Sweet potatoes grow best with compost and an organic potato food will increase their size. I start mine from sweet potatoes rooted in water in the winter. When the vines grow from the potatoes, I cut them off the tuber and root them in water. I then plant these rooted vines in the garden after all danger of frost is past and given about 100 days to grow, they will produce new sweet potatoes. The last month or so, do not water the potato vines and this will increase the size of the new tubers.
Are all the vine from the sweet potato all green and edible Is that any difference the Sweet Potato Vine and vine from the edible tuberous root of the sweet potato?
All Sweet Potatoes that are of the Latin name Ipomoea Batatas, have both edible roots,(or tubers)and edible young tender green leaves. You can also eat the dried roots and dried vines. This site tells the story well......http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_potato Some sites list the foliage as toxic. I ate them. I was dilicious and I was ok.
Is carrot a storage root?
Potatoes grow at the root of a potato plant. If you have ever grown potatoes than you will know that they have green leafy stems above ground and that the potatoes grow below ground. Sweet potatoes specifically are tuberous roots which function as a storage center of nutrients.
What does a sweet pea look like?
Typical sweet peas have two leaves and two tendrils that cling and assist the vines to climb towards the sky. The leaves for the sweet peas are long and narrow with a slight point at the end.
How do you rid Florida of potato vines?
Participating in yearly clean-ups, releasing natural enemies, and using weed-killers are ways to rid Florida of potato vines. The air vines in question (Dioscorea bulbifera) can be controlled by Asian leaf-feeding beetles (Lilioceris cheni), gathered by annual, county-wide clean-ups in Florida and treated with triclopyr during active growing seasons in spring and summer. The bulbils and the tubers must be affected in order for the vine to be eradicated.
Can you root a plant without rooting hormone?
yes, a lot of herbs root very easily, such as rosemary and basil. sweet potato vines are another plant that easily roots. hormone just speeds up the process, and is especially helpful if the plant is woody
