I don’t care what the calendar says because as far as I am concerned it is SPRING!! This happens to me every year–I walk into the Dollar Tree in January and there are the displays of planters, bags of soil and hundreds and hundreds of seed packets selling 4 for a Dollar! I approach the rack telling myself I will only get 4 and I won‘t get vegetables because of the disaster the last year and the first thing I pick up are a packet of radish seeds BUT it does say ’good for container growing’! And then a few here and a few there and before I know it I have 16 packets of seeds!!
Between the last post and this I think you have a pretty good idea that I love to grow things!
It’s not Spring yet BUT…
On January 1 I saw I had an extra sweet potato in the fridge and I decided it has been awhile that I have grown a sweet potato vine that I would. It is so easy makes a beautiful window sill plant.
For those who haven’t done it before all you have to do is stick 3 toothpicks around the upper half and put it in a glass of water and the toothpicks will keep that upper half dry. Within a couple of days you will see roots growing under the water. I usually wait for 5-6 long roots before I transfer it into a pot with dirt.
It isn’t long–maybe 2-3 days–and the green leaves will start growing. Within a week I had 5 vines growing and they will soon start ‘draping’ the window.
The plant is the first thing I see when walking into the kitchen and the first thing I do is see what directions the vines are going and how many there are.
