Key Points Sweet potatoes can be grown from slips started in water, soil, or directly in the garden.Growing your own slips saves money and ensures access to untreated, organic sweet potatoes.Warm ...

Sweet potato is a hot weather plant, but to be able to plant them when the ground is warm the slips need to be growing now. I start them indoors with potatoes grown the year before in our garden. The ...

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 ...

Learn how to grow sweet potatoes in your garden. This guide covers planting, care, harvesting, and curing for a bountiful ...

Sweet potatoes often go through an identity crisis; are they a type of potato? Are they the same as a yam? Some sweet potatoes are advertised as yams, but true yams aren’t even grown in the ...

Sweet potatoes in the garden provide two summer crops. With powerfully nutritious greens and roots for both our diet and our garden soils, they are a great rotation crop. Since they are in the Morning ...

February is National Sweet Potato month. My research did not uncover why USDA chose the month of February since sweet potatoes are a warm-season crop, but even so we will honor it horticulturally.

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 ...

Compared to other crops, not many gardeners in our area grow sweet potatoes. Traditionally they have been considered a warm climate crop. Sweet potatoes are grown by planting root sprouts called ...

A garden bed full of sweet potato plants and some harvested sweet potatoes in a white plastic basket. - Piyaset/Getty Images Do you wish you could skip trips to the grocery store and just reach into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sweet potatoes root prolifically and slips are started indoors in water or soil or outdoors directly in the garden. Read more here ...

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 ...