Simplicity at its best. Lovely.

thanks for the vocabulary lesson too, alec. betcha everyone sort of knew the word but didn't, and all appreciated the dictionary definition.

A sweet potato vine! Had one as a kid...

Jean,
Do you have to soak sweet potatoes in water to get the vine to grow, or just let potatoe sit and vine will sprout on its own? Do you have to trim vines from other "eyes" of potato?

Gekko, there's no soaking. You needn't trim the eyes. You should *partially* cover the sweet potato with water. Usually four toothpicks are stuck in the potato and that keeps the potato from being submerged in the jar(this is also done with avocado and mango pits), but I imagine you could use a with a neck that would keep it partly under water. Just change or add the water as needed. Roots form in a few days, and the vine starts growing after a couple of weeks.