Follow our journey on growing a sweet potato plant from a store-bought tuber till harvesting.

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 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 ...

When you know how to grow a sweet potato in water, you can get a dozen or more slips for free that you can plant in your ...

A staple crop for years, sweet potatoes are fairly easy to grow right in your own backyard—it just takes a little time and know-how to do it right. We asked gardening experts to break down the steps ...

Legend has it that the sweet potato vine sweet-talked its way out of the vegetable garden and into the window boxes of fine Brooklyn brownstones and cozy California cottages. The dark purple blackie ...

With inflation eating into our wallets and grocery store prices slowly creeping up, a lot of people are trying their hands at growing their own food at home—but where to start? Some fruits and veggies ...

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 ...

Sweet Caroline Medusa Green is an architectural plant of the first order. I know what you are thinking, isn’t that a sweet potato? The answer is a hearty yes, thank you! Sweet Caroline Medusa Green is ...

Question: I would like to plant sweet potatoes this spring. Can I start transplants in a glass of water? Answer: Many a gardener has sprouted a whole sweet potato in a drinking glass or jar of water.

The plant known as the Hawaiian sweet potato is not native to Hawaii. Although the plant has the Hawaiian name uala and its tuber has been a staple in the Hawaiian diet for centuries, it is actually ...

Q: What’s happening to this sweet potato vine? One of our sweet potato tubers developed a bud and I planted it. Any ideas to help the plant? A: Congratulations on starting a sweet potato vine! Over ...