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October 24, 2011 · 6 Comments

Can You Eat a Sweet Potato Vine Tuber?

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Sweet potato vine tubers with Chinese lantern flowers

Can you eat a sweet potato vine tuber?

While taking apart my front porch container plantings this weekend, the question came to mind: Can you eat these cute little tubers that the ornamental sweet potato vine made?

Short answer: Yes, you can.

Longer answer: Yes, you can eat a sweet potato vine tuber, but you probably don’t want to. Ornamental sweet potato vines are selected for their foliage — the lush leaves that tumble out of pots and window boxes so decoratively. The tubers are not even a consideration, and so don’t usually taste very good. If you want delicious sweet potatoes, it’s best to grow plants designated for eating.

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  1. Jim/ArtofGardening.org says

    October 24, 2011 at 9:34 pm

    Thanks for letting us know! I always wondered, ’cause I’ve grown some doozies, but was always afraid to eat something I’m not sure of.

  2. Becky Johnson says

    October 25, 2011 at 9:21 am

    Has anyone had any luck storing these tubers? I tried it
    once, but it didn’t work very well.

  3. Jean says

    October 25, 2011 at 10:34 am

    Yeah! Thanks for the answer to this perennial fall question. Now I can compost in peace.

  4. Tyler says

    March 30, 2012 at 1:47 am

    Nice post. I know that if you eat them you have to “cure” them first. That and I wouldn’t eat them if they’re a nursery variety, only if I propagated them myself first!

  5. Ken Brock says

    October 13, 2017 at 3:03 pm

    How do you do you dig ortimental sweet potatoes?

  6. Jeanne says

    October 21, 2019 at 12:00 pm

    I cut my tuner up like fries and baked it in the oven in olive oil and sprinkled with Lawry’s seasoned salt! Tasty! More like a regular potatoe!

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