While this is not hardy in my zone 5, I have successfully overwintered cuttings (in water) in the window until spring and then potted them up for another year. This plant has even flowered inside in February while growing in water.
Vines die after a frost or freeze but tubers can be lifted and stored for planting again in the spring.
Drought tolerant, tolerates full sun very well, easy to grow. Good in the ground or in pots as a trailing vine.
A good sweet potato for the South and warmer climates.
Wonderful foliage color on this plant.
Typically grown as a foliage plant. Occasional blooms, which resemble their near cousin, the morning glory, are pale pink with a violet-purple center, and provide a strong contrast to the almost black foliage. The foliage is dark and heavily lobed, and brilliant purple on the underside. Wonderful cascading out of a container or hanging basket, and provides great contrast and impact when planted in swathes in the landscape. Works well with brightly colored celosia, or lime-green heucheras.
An excellent potato. Orange flesh is excellent. Very productive. Major drawback: Under some conditions, it grows to jumbo size. Not as uniform as modern commercial varieties.
One of the best flavored cultivars that I have grown. More uniform in size than Centennial. Very productive.
This is a new cultivar in a new series of cultivars of the Ornamental Sweet-Potato called the Solarpower Series developed from the Ball Seed Company. The ornamental variety of Sweet-Potato has white tubers instead of orange ones. I have never eaten them, but I find them at the end of each growing season in the North when I dig the plants out of the ground or take them out of pots after being killed by frost. We of the northern temperate regions use them as annuals, though they are perennial in their native Central America and other tropical areas. It is so easy to take stem cuttings and root them in water or moist medium for propagation. This specific cultivar of 'Red Heart' does have leaves that are mostly red with some copper and yellowish colorings. The leaves are heart-shaped and entire, not deeply lobed as the 'Solarpower Red' is. There are other Solarpower cultivars with black-purple and lime-colored leaves.
