A yam and a sweet potato are 2 different things. http://homecooking.about.com/od/howtocookvegetables/a/sweetpotatodiff.htm <http://homecooking.about.com/od/howtocookvegetables/a/sweetpotatodiff.htm> Jelayne On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 5:54 PM, juanita <juanita2@cox.net> wrote: > We used to call them sweet potatoes when I first married. My husband > was in the Navy....we were young with little money and never thought > about buying plants from a nursery. I had sweet potatoes....propped > with toothpicks in a small glass jar of water.....and they produced a > window full of beautiful leaves. Looked very pretty in the sunlight. > I also cut carrot tops down into the edible part and set them on > small pebbles in water in a saucer. They sprouted too and produced > beautiful foliage. > > I liked to break off pussy willow branches and forsythia branches > before they bloomed. I put those in jars of water and it wasn't long > before they sprouted out too. I loved sprigs of asparagus too with > it's fern-like foliage. > > I kept starters from a philodendron that my mother had when she died > and it produced runners and a lot of foliage for probably 20-25 > years after she died. > > juanita > >