Throw a rotten sweet potato into a flower pot, and its leaves are more beautiful than ivy. You won't be able to eat it all, and autumn brings a surprise harvest.

Some people say sweet potato leaves are the king of leafy greens, and indeed sweet potato leaves have high nutritional value, can boost immunity, protect eyesight, detoxify, and fight aging, among other benefits. They are also popular in the market, especially among older friends; regularly eating some sweet potato leaves is good for health. Sweet potato leaves mostly have to be bought at the vegetable market, but you can actually grow a few at home too. Care is very simple, and one autumn will bring a good harvest. Let's take a look.

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Balcony sweet potato

-Sweet potato dishes-

Sweet potato leaves are delicious and also rich in fiber, with a good effect on preventing constipation. At the same time, beneficial components in sweet potatoes such as vitamins, magnesium, and phosphorus can help keep blood vessels elastic, so the more you eat, the younger you feel.

Sweet potatoes can be boiled or roasted. Sweet potato leaves are mostly stir-fried quickly or served cold; stir-frying them with minced garlic is deeply loved by everyone, and the method is very simple. Heat oil, add garlic slices and stir until fragrant, add sweet potato leaves and stir-fry quickly over high heat, add a little salt and it's ready to serve!

-Sweet potato bonsai-

If you have sweet potatoes at home, you can directly use them to make a bonsai. Sweet potatoes are very easy to propagate: put a whole small sweet potato in water, fix it in place with toothpicks, and it will sprout quickly.

A large sweet potato can be cut into several pieces with a small knife; after the wounds dry, soak them in water, or plant them in a flower pot and let them grow.

When sweet potato vines grow creeping along the ground, adventitious roots form very easily at the nodes, and after cutting off the aboveground part, the roots, or broken stubs, they can still develop into new plants.

During this period, you can give them a moderate amount of sunlight, and do not let them run out of water. In 2 weeks they will grow very large.

Kept at home, it is comparable to ivy. It can be styled very artistically, or kept very down-to-earth.

Many flower enthusiasts who grow succulents know that a tiny caudex succulent costs dozens or hundreds of yuan, but a potted sweet potato is actually very beautiful too!

If you make it into a bonsai, you need to prune it often to maintain the shape.

If you want to eat the leaves, you can apply more nitrogen fertilizer, and the leaves will easily grow like crazy; soon you can harvest a large amount of sweet potato leaves. Growing them at home is reassuring too, with no pesticides.

Sweet potatoes need a temperature above 17°C to sprout; below that, they will not grow roots. Keep them in a ventilated place with good light, and normally keep the potting soil moist. In summer, evaporation is high and they wilt easily, so you can water a bit more.

A flower enthusiast got many sweet potatoes from one flower pot.

(Tahua Forum electricitszh)

Plant a row of sweet potatoes on the balcony, and you won't be able to finish the sweet potato leaves and sweet potatoes.

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