While you might assume potatoes and sweet potatoes are quite similar, there is one key difference that actually sets them ...

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 ...

Planting sweet potatoes indoors even has some distinct advantages over growing them outside. They can thrive year-round, as ...

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 ...

If you're worried you don't have enough space to grow sweet potatoes outside, try this container method that lets you produce vegetables indoors.

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 ...

Watch in awe as nature works its magic in this captivating time lapse video, "Sweet Potato Growing Time Lapse - 35 Days in 56 Seconds." Follow the incredible transformation of a sweet potato as it ...

DEAR HELOISE: When I was a little girl, my mother used to start a plant with a sweet potato just by rooting it in a vase of water. Do you know anything about such a plant? I don't recall this ever ...

TENNILLE, Ga. — David Anderson is looking to find his name in the Guinness Book of World Records. How does he plan to become a world record holder? By growing the world’s largest sweet potato, he told ...

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 ...