Sweet potatoes are delicious, nutritious, and relatively easy to grow in the home garden. You can incorporate sweet potatoes into the companion planting, succession planting, and crop rotation plans ...

Growing sweet potatoes in containers lets you start earlier, manage space, and protect plants from frost. Choose compact, non-vining varieties like Bunch Porto Rico or Vardaman for easier container ...

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 ...

Sweet potatoes are easy to grow—you just need a little patience. Growing sweet potatoes at home is easy and rewarding, yielding a delicious crop with minimal care. Start slips from healthy potatoes, ...

If you like sweet potatoes, why not grow a few plants this year? If space is limited, grow a plant in a 5-gallon bucket or a pot of similar size with holes in the bottom for drainage. The beautiful ...

Wondering how to cure sweet potatoes after digging them up? Which varieties hold up best in storage? Read on to learn all about growing sweet potatoes at home. Sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) are ...

Use a supermarket sweet potato to start your own plants. Sweet potatoes like warm weather, growing during frost-free times of the year. Plant them in spring after the last frost and harvest between ...

Phil Hodson not only grows sweet potatoes on his land near the Kansas River between Lawrence and Lecompton but a variety of squash and pumpkins. Phil Hodson’s sweet potatoes come out of the soil in ...

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 ...