I'm Going to Grow Sweet Potatoes in Conatiners....Vertically!

Gina and I really enjoy a beautifully cooked sweet potato.  It's not a hard thing to do and there's nothing like the taste of a sweet potato.  A little butter and a little cinnamon.  Mmmmmmm.  Some like some marshmallows melted on them too.  Gina does, but me, not so much.  There are tons of ways to prepare them too other than just baked.  So, I've never grown them, but I've seen the YouTube videos of folks putting store-bought taters into a cup supported by toothpicks with the bottom half in water.  After a period, they root and grow what are called slips.  Slips are the vegetative growth or vine with leaves.  Once the slips emerge, they get big fairly quickly.  Then all you gotta do is rip the slip off the potato right at the base and pluck into some soil (watered of course).  Or, you could put the slip itself into a cup of water and it'll root.  The slips are hearty and will root easy enough.  Thing is, don't toss out the tater after you pull them off.  The sweet potato-in-a-cup will continue to grow slips that you can use over and over again.  Essentially, one sweet potato can make a HUGE amount of potatoes this way.  So, intrigued, and motivated by the potatoes growing vertically, I decided to give it a shot!  Here is the video of me doing it: