Sun and healthy soil are key. Grow sweet potatoes in USDA hardiness zones six and higher or perennially in zones eight and above. "As with other food-growing plants, they require a generous amount of ...

Growing your own slips from sweet potatoes is a rewarding project so easy anyone can do it. Unlike regular potatoes, sweet potatoes do not have eyes that grow into new plants. Skins contain fine roots ...

In this video, I show you how to grow sweet potato in containers or pots. Growing sweet potato in containers is particularly ...

Every year, I try something new in my garden, whether that's a new variety of some vegetable I've grown before, or some completely new gardening technique. This year, I decided to try my hand at ...

If you're looking for the right plant to grow indoors, sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) may not be the first choice to come to mind. Still, these tasty root vegetables can thrive indoors when given ...

We all know that potatoes are a big crop here in Idaho, but have you ever tried growing sweet potatoes? Believe it or not, sweet potatoes aren’t really related to the regular potatoes we’re all used ...

BOISE, Idaho — We all know that potatoes are a big crop here in Idaho, but have you ever tried growing sweet potatoes? Believe it or not, sweet potatoes aren’t really related to the regular potatoes ...

Do you wish you could skip trips to the grocery store and just reach into your pantry for sweet potatoes? When you think of propagating vegetables, you probably imagine the sunshine and warm soil of a ...

Louisiana sweet potato growers see success while Mississippi producers face significant weather-related crop losses this ...

When I tell people that I have grown sweet potatoes as part of my summer garden, the response is often that they didn’t think you could grow them in our area. I’m happy to report that you can grow ...