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Sweet potato leaves


updated 10 Oct 2017

29 July 2017
Attempt to plant another vegetable - sweet potato leaves - from vegetable pack bought from the supermarket.


After 1 night in the water, there is already a visible root.

Planted directly into the soil - parched after a hot afternoon. But it rejuvenated after watering.

Potted 1 Aug 2017. Sharing pot with Indian borage 'po-hor.

9 Aug 2017: Looks like new shoots.

15 Aug 2017: New shoots from the water-rooted plant. A tiny new shoot from the stem cutting buried in the soil (top-most green bit in pic).

16 Aug 2017

18 Aug 2017 Sprouted sweet potato from a friend. Purple leaves?

21 Aug 2017 More shoots

21 Aug 2017 Purple leaves are more defined now.
27 Aug 2017: The leaves are not purple anymore.

27 Aug 2017

6 Sep 2017: The shoots from the sweet potato has grown very long and tall.

6 Sep 2017
11 Sep 2017: Very long creeper.
15 Sep 2017: It time to harvest or trim ...

17 Sep 2017
Harvested all the long tendrils and big leaves for a simple stir fry with garlic. The leaves were really tender. The stems of the creeper was very tendrous, even after I tried to peel off the outer skin. Discard.

Small amount of harvest.

Sweet potato leaves stir fried with garlic and salt.

Left a few leaves on the plant, hoping this will continue to grow.

The remains of the other plant with bigger sweet potato leaves. Still tender after cooking.

8 Oct 2017: Second round of planting

Creeper vines growing long from the sweet potato.


Some plants died. The new cuttings are from a supermarket vegetable pack.
10 Oct 2017: The creeper vines got infected with mealy bugs. Cut and threw away the two long vines. Restart the sweet potato shoots. But the other pot is looking better (cuttings from supermarket pack).
Small leaves from the cuttings that were put straight into the soil.
17 Oct 2017: Fast growing leaves.




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