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

HollyAnnS wrote:
If you have Tri-colored OSP I suggest that you take cuttings and try to over winter those. For some reason I have not had good luck with the Tri-color potatoes they don't seem to grow true. They will produce starters but the coloring isn't the same. I have read how you should wash your potatoes, inspect for damage and powder with an anti fungal before storing. All very good suggestions. I knock the dirt off and toss into brown paper bags and store them on a shelf in a an upstairs bedroom. One year I collected the potatoes in a 5 gal bucket and somehow never did get them cleaned and put away. They just sat in that bucket in a corner of the mud room all winter and all of them were just fine. So it doesn't matter if you are well organized or a bit like me saving these potatoes from year to year is pretty easy.
I like to use long shallow pans to lay my tubers in and I find that takeout containers work very well. In this pic you can see some of the tubers and thick roots starting to put out starters or slips.