How to Grow Sweet Potato Leaves? A Detailed Guide to Practical Growing Methods

Sweet potato leaves are known as the “queen” of vegetables, with many benefits and even anti-cancer properties, so many friends want to grow some sweet potato leaves at home, so how do you grow sweet potato leaves?

1. How to Grow Sweet Potato Leaves

1. When raising seedlings, place the sweet potato in horizontally, and covering it with 2 cm of soil is enough. By then you will see for yourself: after you take off the seedlings that have grown white roots on top and transplant them, you can also turn the sweet potato over, and after some days, another pot of seedlings will appear. There is one more thing: never cut the sweet potato open and bury it in the flower pot. A sweet potato is not a potato. If you use the method for growing potatoes to grow sweet potatoes, all you will get is a pot of maggot-infested rot. You will not get a single vine. The sweet potato must be buried whole, placed in horizontally.

2. Wait until the sweet potato sprouts and the seedlings grow to about 5 cun, then you can cut the leaves. When cutting, be careful to cut at the fork of the vine (do not pinch it off with your hands). One pot like this can be cut repeatedly many times; it will grow again after cutting, and no additional fertiliser is needed. In the countryside, farmers take the cut vines and replant them in the soil, and that is the large field of sweet potatoes we see. Provided there is enough nutrients, you can eat it once every 2 weeks. Sweet potatoes must not be buried too deep.

3. After the seedlings emerge, keep watching until there are small white roots on the seedlings. Once basically every seedling has small white roots, you can transplant the seedlings.