Sweet Potato Pie! Errrr, Vine! (Part 1)

Alright, I said I'd document my attempt at Sweet Potato Vine, so here it is!

I have a very vague memory of doing this in school when I was little, but I only remember the beginning, and not how it turned out in the end. Even so, starting these little tubers made me feel like a kid again. I already had a great big sweet potato that's been living in my kitchen for about a month, that I was about to throw out. I say 'growing' and not 'sitting' in my kitchen, because it was already sprouting eyes and such. So, instead of throwing it out, I decided to grow it! I also bought two more from the store. I picked ones that also already seemed to be growing things.

The two that I bought:

I didn't get a 'before' picture of the one I already had.

Now, all three of them -- especially the one I already had -- were pretty big, and me being a bit gross-motor challenged, I was afraid of toppling over the glasses that I had with the potatoes making them top heavy, so I put some decorative rocks in the bottom of the glasses:

Then I stuck four toothpicks around the sides of all of the potatoes to hold them up and put them in, filling the glasses with water:

The third one was far too big to fit in any of my glasses, so I cut down a half-gallon milk jug, and used that instead.


Then I set them all on a window sill.

I later added a fourth, smaller potato, but I didn't get before pictures of that one, either. You'll see pictures of that one in Part 2.