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The large holes are probably from paperwasps, they bite the leaves, chew them up and make paper for their nests. The damage is pretty much aesthetic and wasps eat bugs so I leave them alone. There is also a sphinx moth caterpillar which eats sweet potato leaves, but never does enough damage to hurt the plant since sweeties grow so fast.
Makes a great trailing/bedding plant/groundcover here in Boston. Vigorous and fast-growing, it can crawl or trail 7' or more in a season....
Ornamental sweet potatoes are very forgiving. If you goof and let the roots dry up, just put the tuber in a fresh glass of water and it'll start growing again. Little nubs will soon appear on the top part of the potato. It's fun to watch them unfold tiny leaves and start stretching into sweet potato vines!
Just came across these posts while searching about composting sweet potato vines. Glad to hear it is okay as I have a 'small' pile I am composting :-) I am hoping I can find time to hack them up somehow and then run through a grinder with some (brown) leaves to help reduce the pile and have of course have it break down much more quickly.
For those of you who are unaware, the morning glory and the sweet potato are from the same botanical genus: Ipomoea. Sweet potatoes are Ipomoea batatas , while other varieties of morning glories have species designations of nil (Japanese morning glory), alba (moonflower), aquatica (water spinach), or purpurea ( Grandpa Ott's purple morning glory.)
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i've got a sweet potato vine (not sure of the variety) that someone gave me as a cutting about 4 months ago it's lived in a glass of water on my bathroom window since i got it and it flowered and has been doing really well but lately (in the last month orso) the leaves around the bottom have been turning yellow and dying
I cut my sweet potato plant back, took off the bottom leaves. Then diped the leaves in clorox water(1tsp to a gal. water, to get rid of any bugs). Put them in a jar to root, (in a shady place)now I will plant them and bring them in for the winter. As they get bigger this winter I will continue to cut them back and root more.
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I have been pinching the "dead" leaves off but they just grow back with the same thing. Little by little, my sweet potato vine is being reduced and I'm afraid in the end it'll just die. When new growth starts coming in, it's real shriveled and sick looking and almost immediately gets covered in the brown spots.
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