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

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 ...

Sweet potato is a tender vegetable native to Central and South America that requires a long, frost-free growing season to ...

Q: I remember as a child growing sweet potatoes in our kitchen window and later planting the slips in my grandmother’s garden. How can I best pass this deeply rewarding experience to the next ...

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 ...

Use a supermarket sweet potato to start your own plants.

Sweet potatoes are easy to grow, but they require heat and a long growing season -- more than the amount of time listed on planting instructions. That was the conclusion drawn by the Master Gardeners ...

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 ...

What many folks call yams in the South are actually sweet potatoes, a morning glory relative. True yams are a tropical root crop not related to sweet potatoes. Healthy, nutritious sweet potatoes by ...

BOISE, Idaho — 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 ...

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 ...

Volunteers are needed to help plant 5,000 sweet potato slips and spread straw for mulch at the community garden in Western Hills Park this Saturday. The planting, which will take place from 9 a.m. to ...