sweet potato vines?

[philothea]

I have read that you can feed sweet potato vines. Does it matter what kind? I have some volunteer purple skin/white flesh sweet potatoes that are coming up in my raised bed from last year. They didn't produce alot of tubers but alot of leaves. I was thinking of switching to the leaves once all my corn leaves have been picked. It is more of a treat kind of thing than the main food. They still have pellets and hay.

Just wondering.

 

[AmysMacdog]

I read that too so I bought and planted some. They are doing pretty well so far. I planted mine for both the goats and the rabbits, I'm looking forward to seeing if they like them or not.
I did see the voles in my garden enjoyed some of the plants. :roll: But hopefully won't take anymore now that the plants are growing so fast.

 

[MaggieJ]

This question came up a while ago and we concluded the sweet potatoes vines are fine for rabbits as they are all Ipomoea batatas, just different varieties.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_potato

 

[bunnygardener]

I have fed them to my rabbits. there are several studies done on using the vines as feed. They are used a lot in Africa as a main food source for rabbits.