Planting sweet potatoes indoors even has some distinct advantages over growing them outside. They can thrive year-round, as they won't be limited by frost dates or other weather conditions, and ...

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 ...

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

Who doesn’t love a good tuber, whether it’s the sweetness of baked sweet potatoes or the crispy-hot goodness of French fries? We asked experts for their tips on how to grow them. Some gardeners plant ...

Sweet potatoes are vining plants that scramble vigorously along the ground. Varieties should be labeled and planted far enough apart from each other to prevent the accidental mixing of varieties ...

While you might assume potatoes and sweet potatoes are quite similar, there is one key difference that actually sets them farther apart than expected.

Many gardeners new to Florida are surprised that they are a little behind when try to plant their gardens the same time they did “back home.” Most of our vegetable crops should have been planted in ...

Sweet potatoes are tasty, nutritious and easy to grow garden plants that require minimum care. Although sweet potatoes are tropical plants that require four months of warm temperatures, there are ...

I have some favorite plants in the vegetable garden, and one of the most treasured is the sweet potato. The vining sweet potato plant shades soil, winding around peppers and eggplants, and between ...

Despite the summer’s rains, this was a great growing season for sweet potatoes. While they are tropical plants and typically associated with being grown in more southern climates, many varieties do ...

My father was not a fan of sweet potatoes. He claimed that one winter when he lived on the farm that’s all they had to eat. My aunt, his sister, said that was pure fabrication. The veracity of the ...