How To Grow a Yam

well , i have had a lot of people ask me how i did this fun little gardening project , so i might as well post it on my blog , right?

what i did was i got a yam from the store , any grocery store will do . i picked out a pointy looking one , but i dont think it makes a difference . i took it home , rinsed it in cold water , and poked tooth picks in it , around the middle . i used 3 tooth picks . then i suspended the yam in a cup of water , the tooth picks held it up so it was half way in the water , half way out of the water . every other day i changed the water because it got cloudy . after about 13 days i started seeing roots and then i potted it in a plastic plant container with holes in the bottom , using organic potting soil and set the yam in a sunny window . it grew very fast .  

also as an added note , the roots grew first , the leaves started growing about 9 days after i potted it in soil . this yam in the photo has been growing for about 3 months .