I'm looking for the following Sweet Caroline Sweet Potatoe Vines: Bronze Red Green/Yellow or just about any others. Have seedlings of: Cardoon Porto Spineless Milk Thistle Globe Thistle Rooted Coleus cuttings of: Saturn Sedona Merlot Rustic Orange Fishnet Stockings Pineapple Splash Thanks,Jeff

Hey, has anybody with this plant ever mysteriously gotten "poison ivy" without touching any? This plant has white, sticky, milky LATEX sap in it. That stuff is not confined to Euphorbias and Ficus, and apparently I'm allergic to it no matter what plant it's coming out of. Please save yourself from any unintentional experimentation and wash well after coming in contact with the sap of this plant. Harmless unless you break open a stem or leaf, but if you do, don't touch your face in any way, and wash well, especially if the latex has dried, but I would really try to not wait that long. After almost 3 years of trying to figure out what in the yard is giving me poison ivy periodically even though I know I have NOT touched any, I am 99.9% sure this is the plant giving me this rash. And I thought I'd washed well, and often, since I keep getting this, I've been washing like I have OCD because I didn't know what plant was doing it. In retrospect, I can remember taking cuttings of this a few days before getting this rash many of the times, and thinking that this was one plant I was pretty sure was NOT the culprit. Wrong! It's certainly possible to make sure I don't come in contact with the sap anymore, and will scrub like a surgeon after handling this plant at all, 'cuz I'm miserably scratching my hand again, and this is the last time, unless/until I discover a new allergy. This sucks. Luckily I've got nothing that would make somebody say "ewww" on a google search of "latex dermatitis" images, but even these tiny spots that don't show up well enough to share a pic are making me crazy! Bottom line, at least for me, if I ever see white sap in a plant, I need to go wash thoroughly, no matter what its' name is, or how cozy of friends I think I am with this plant. I would suggest the same to anybody who isn't sure they are NOT allergic to latex sap. Don't let the box of disposable rubber gloves be your guide. I can wear those with no problem.

Caroline, We have the same yucky weather here. I guess we'll have to try to figure out why some years they make potatoes, and some years they don't. This year I had two diferent purples.....I know one is 'Blackie' and think the other one is 'Sweet Carolina Bewitched Purple'. I also have the chartreuse one called 'Marguerite' and the tri-colored 'Pink Frost'. When I have to harvest mine because a freeze is coming, I'll let you know if any of them made tubers this year. I'm wondering if we had too much moisture and not enough heat. With regular field-grown sweet potatoes, it is excess fertility that causes all foliage/no tuber....or, allowing the runners to root into the surrounding soil. With my ornamentals, though, I haven't fertilized them....and they haven't been allowed to root in elsewhere either because they're in containers on the patio. So, in a few days or a few weeks, I guess we'll see if I did or didn't get tubers. Dawn

I dug up ONE tuber a couple of weekends ago. I know there must be more, but I couldn't reach way down inside that planter box - it's about 4' deep. It was about 6" long and about 6" in circumference. Not too big, really. But I put it in my cabinet where I store my potatoes. Looks like a regular old sweet potatoe to me. Moni - yours is HUMONGOUS! Susan