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My wife had a sweet potato, or a yam, in a jar on her sink to watch it grow. It finally got out of control, and she threw it out. I saw the poor plant in the trash, and decided to give it a second chance at life. I planted it in the ground, and is now a very happy plant. What is it going to turn into? Will it make more potatoes? Stan
 
I would certainly think so. MY dad used to plant sweet potato plants in the garden on the farm. I think that's the only way you can grow them.
 
You pull the little plants (w/roots forming) off the tuber and plant them. If they have enough growing time before frost, your 'taters will be underneath. Just dig 'em up, cure in the sun for a while, then bake & eat. Yum.
 
I grow my own plants every year. Just put a potato in the dirt or water and pull the sprouts off and plant. In the late summer or fall I cut the plants off and dig the new potatoes. If I put the cut plants in a pile and it rains they will often take root and continue growing.
 
We have some big, 18 inch, pots of plants,
and , in the spring the wife always plants a
sweet potato plant in each pot for the foliage.
every fall, after the frost I clean the pots to
put them away, and always get some sweet potatos
from each pot.
 
It will make one of the best "natural" desserts you've ever eaten.

Wash it and bake it in the oven; or put it next to the fireplace during the winter.

Apply butter and maybe some cinnamon.

If you're in a hurry, just wipe off the dirt and eat it raw.

Sweet potatoes are a bountiful crop hear in NE Texas.
 
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