Sweet potatoes


purple sweet potato leaves as ground cover

I grow 3 varieties of sweet potatoes, orange, purple and white, both for the tubers at the end of the season and also for having the tender shoots as stir-fry green leafy vegetable. It also acts as a beautiful ground cover to stop weed growing on bare ground.
It is interesting to see that the leaves are different for the 3 varieties. 

purple sweet potato leaves
 Purple sweet potato - beautiful heart shape with a pointy end
 
orange sweet potato leaves
 Orange sweet potato - large spade shape

 
white sweet potato leaves

White sweet potato - slim hand shape

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