The Sweet Potato Vines with showy leaves and trailing habits for my hanging baskets and containers

About the Sweet Potato Vines

The Sweet Potato Vines have showy leaves, vigorous trailing habits for use as spillers in hanging baskets or container gardening. Every year I plant the ornamental vines (Ipomoea) in my containers and planter boxes. This year I decided on the Lime Green and the Blackie varieties.

The Lime variety has colorful lime green leaves and has a great trailing habit.

How To Grow the Sweet Potato Vines

While the tags say that it's great for full sun, if the planted area gets too much of the hot sun, the leaves will burn. These annuals do not like to dry out and will wilt or dry out around the edges.

A another warning. If the temperature is too cold, the leaves will droop.

I had an issue this spring with the temperatures being too cold (frost warnings). The leaves drooped, turned brown and curled up.

I had to snip them off. The plants will re-bound. Rabbits also really enjoy this annual.

The Blackie variety has a vigorous trailing habit making it great for hanging baskets and containers. Blackie doesn't grow quite as quickly as the Lime variety and mounds a little before trailing down.

The foliage is dark burgundy black shaped like a maple leaf.

This vine also does not like being in the cold, nor does it like being in direct hot sun. The edges will burn and turn brown.

Both Sweet Potato Vines benefit from regular watering and fertilizing. I normally 'feed' my containers and planter boxes every 3rd watering.

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