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Sweet Potato Vine surprisingly in my yard! Advice needed.

Carrie77
16 years ago

In early Spring, I bought a packet of Petunia seeds from Wal-Mart and planted them around my bird bath. Well, it turns out, the package was wrong and I have sweet potato vines growing instead!!!!! It is growing like crazy and is all around the bird bath and is quite tall. I will try to attach some pics this weekend of it. Also just a few purple flowers that seem to be closed up.

Ok, so my question is..I have no idea what type of potato vine this is.......do ALL sweet potato vines produce sweet potatoes? I wasn't sure if some are just 'decorative'. I haven't dug to see if there are any sweet potato roots. Not even sure when I'd harvest them if I were to have any.

Any advice on this would be great...I usually only grow tomatoes :)

Carrie

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