Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Ornamental Sweet Potatoes get them Growing, 1 by HollyAnnS

HollyAnnS wrote:
Here it is Feb/March and we are talking about starting our OSP but it really starts with the Potatoes, tubers or thick roots that you have saved last Fall. I plant my OSP in pots and in my window and deck boxes. I general wait till close to or just after the first frost to harvest my potatoes. General I stop watering and let them start to dry up and die back just to make it easier to dig them out and separate other plants like the tuberous begonias or tuberose that I sometimes use as companion plants. You can take cuttings of your OSP to bring in and root to keep over winter in the house and you will want to do that before the first frost. So the question is what will I find under that dirt and what should I keep. I guess technically they are all potatoes but I'm not quite sure. I find full size potatoes, what I call tubers are somewhat potato like but long and skinny, then there are what I call thick roots. You want to save all of these as you would be surprised what might produce starters for you.
This picture gives you a good idea of the three different types and the containers I use for starting them.