{"id":1302,"date":"2022-02-19T13:14:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T09:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2022-02-19T13:14:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T09:14:22","slug":"choosing-and-planting-the-ornamental-sweet-potato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/gardening\/flowers\/choosing-and-planting-the-ornamental-sweet-potato\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing and planting the ornamental sweet potato"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How to choose and plant ornamental sweet potatoes, not to be confused with the table sweet potato.&nbsp;The answer is in this video with Hubert the gardener.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ornamental sweet potatoes are&nbsp;decorative for their&nbsp;tricolor or plain&nbsp;foliage&nbsp;.&nbsp;They cannot be consumed!&nbsp;They are often used in flower arrangements in towns and villages.<br>They don&#8217;t need a lot of water.<br>They will do well in large vats with rich soil.&nbsp;They easily fill empty spaces in flower beds.&nbsp;They go well with&nbsp;ornamental cabbages&nbsp;or&nbsp;maritime cineraria&nbsp;.&nbsp;Very beautiful on the edge, they are cultivated like an&nbsp;annual flower&nbsp;.&nbsp;They disappear with the first frosts.&nbsp;The rhizomes are then removed from the ground and stored like potatoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to choose and plant ornamental sweet potatoes, not to be confused with the table sweet potato.&nbsp;The answer is in this video with Hubert the gardener. Ornamental sweet potatoes are&nbsp;decorative for their&nbsp;tricolor or plain&nbsp;foliage&nbsp;.&nbsp;They cannot be consumed!&nbsp;They are often used in flower arrangements in towns and villages.They don&#8217;t need a lot of water.They will do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.semsgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}