Sweet potatoes are the perfect crop to grow at home because they're relatively hands-off, and they don't need nutrient-rich ...

Growing sweet potatoes indoors is best done from slips, which are the rooted sprouts that grow from mature sweet potatoes.

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 ...

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 ...

In this video, I show you how to grow sweet potato in containers or pots. Growing sweet potato in containers is particularly ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is finally time to harvest our sweet potatoes. We planted ours in the summer, as sweet potatoes are one of the few plants that can be planted and will thrive during the peak of our summer heat.

For the summer flower garden, ornamental sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) make a beautiful, dependable addition. They thrive in the intense heat of our summers, and May through August is the perfect ...

For the summer flower garden, ornamental sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) make a beautiful, dependable addition. They thrive in the intense heat of our summers, and May through August is the perfect ...

You can grow sweet potatoes year-round indoors or, in warm areas, outdoors. First, though, you need to sprout the tubers so you can harvest and root the slips.

In fact, the perks associated with growing sweet potatoes extend beyond nutrition to the very health of your planting environment. In most gardens, sweet potatoes can actually help maximize growing ...