Hallson Gardens

this spring i purchased some type of a sweet potato or potato vine (solid chartreuse color) for a planter. since our frost, the foliage has now died. when i cleaned out the pot i found some potato tubers. is there some way i can store these over winter so i can plant them in the spring?

phloxywis

Supposedly, you can store the tubers just like any tender tuber/bulb and replant next year. I am going to try it this year too. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Go for it!

jay dee

i think i will try it. i'll probably store them with some dahlia tubers/rhizomes---whatever.
phloxywis

Yep, I dug up mine and kept the tubers also. Stored them dry in a paper bag in the garage. Hopefully next spring I will have lots of new plants!

Ginger

Update,
Well my tubers did not make it over the winter well. When I took them out of the paper sack in the garage they were mush. I suspect I should have let them dry out better before storing them.
I about died when I went to buy more for my garden this year. Several good nurseries wanted $5.00 or more for a 4 inch pot with one plant. Good thing these spread fast!

I need to learn how to do these from seed!

Ginger

I just tossed ours in the garage like I do the fushia and am now just getting them out and I see a sign of life already.

KH, explain tossed them in the garage please. Did you leave them in the dirt? I really like them and would love to have lots more growing amongst some rocks I have by my driveway, but they are getting way to expensive for me if they are going to die each year.

Ginger

Yeah, explain yourself Karma! Inquiring minds would like more information please?

Explaining here, just tossed the hanging basket into the corner of the garage and watered once a month with the fushias. A towel was tossed over the baskets. No fussin' and they are starting to green up now that I moved them outside.

Well I'll be darned... I have mine planted in a wheel barrow, but I may move them to pots to overwinter. I will try that and hope it works here. Thanks KH!!

Ginger

Karma, that's too easy. Who da thunk? But then my fushia have never survived either. Do you cut the foliage off at the rootball?

Nope I didn't cut anything away, I just got lazy and tossed them in the garage with a few other plants. I have a corner that is well protected and close to the drier that funs a few times a week so they got that for the heat. I did have to cut away the stems that die from last year's neglect but they are still alive and growing. I think I'll get a few more this year.