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 ...

To start sweet potatoes for indoor growing, you’ll need to produce slips. To sprout your sweet potatoes, bury them halfway in ...

Growing sweet potatoes just requires a sunny yard, well-draining soil, and regular watering. An urban farmer shares the basics. CEO and founder of Revival Roots, a company that builds and maintains ...

Growing sweet potatoes at home is easy and rewarding, yielding a delicious crop with minimal care. Start slips from healthy potatoes, plant after frost in warm, sunny, well-drained soil, then space, ...

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 ...

Though not on the menu at the first Thanksgiving, sweet potatoes have certainly become part of our American Thanksgiving tradition. Whether served mashed, roasted, as pie filling or candied with ...

Sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) are a nutritious, versatile root crop popular among many home gardeners. While this plant is originally from Central and South America and grows best in warm climates, ...

DEAR HELOISE: When I was a little girl, my mother used to start a plant with a sweet potato just by rooting it in a vase of water. Do you know anything about such a plant? I don't recall this ever ...