In addition, nasturtiums are good trap plants for pest control, drawing the likes of aphids, flies, and flea beetles towards ...

Did you know scientist George Washington Carver was instrumental in creating new markets for farmers by discovering hundreds of uses for pecans, sweet potatoes and soybeans? Using a few materials ...

How to Grow Sweet Potato Slips in Garden Soil. The Spruce / Carson Downing. Sweet potatoes require a long, warm growing season of 85 to 120 days from planting out to harvest.

Yes, you can grow sweet potatoes in our area. In fact, our long hot summers make a good sweet potato-growing climate, as they require at least four months of warm weather to produce.

Fry says sweet potatoes grow well in our area. “We grow sweet potatoes from slips and you can purchase them typically online or you can actually grow them yourself, the slip yourself, by ...

Sweet potato and yam are often used interchangeably, but the popular vegetable often eaten on Thanksgiving is not the same thing. Here's what to know.

Ashton Ohmstede, 12, joins fellow volunteers as they dig for any remaining sweet potatoes to be harvested from a large plot at the Giving Field community garden in Beaumont Wednesday evening.

After harvesting, it's important to remember the next step: curing. "Curing toughens up a potato’s skin and extends its ...

Sylvester Brown Jr., co-founder of the Sweet Potato Project with the North Area Community Development Corporation, needs the community’s vote to win a $20,000 grant. Until Sunday, August 3, the ...

Reviewed by Julie Thompson-Adolf Sweet potato vine (Ipomoea batatas) is a fast-growing annual and classic "spiller" plant commonly used for container gardening. Its long tendrils of varied leaf ...