So you decided to grow potatoes in your garden this year. But not just any old type of potatoes—this guide is all about the orange-hued spuds known as sweet potatoes! Before you go digging up those ...

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 ...

Prepare for a long growing season and harvest before the first frost. Harvest by digging carefully with a shovel or garden fork. Sweet potatoes develop their best flavor after curing and can be stored ...

Sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) are usually harvested about 100 to 110 days after planting or when the plant’s leaves start to yellow. Though, sweet potatoes can continue to grow after their leaves ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s time to dig up your potatoes! Or so you think. There’s a fine line when it comes to completing your potato harvest, according to garden columnist Jessica Damiano. The expert wrote in an ...

Unless you want enormous sweet potatoes, mid-September through mid-October is the window for harvest. Courtesy Johnson County Extension It’s nearly October, so now is around the time to head out to ...

We have experienced torrential rainfall the past few days, with some Southeast Texas areas receiving more than 20 inches of rain. Spring weather and climate patterns constantly change, and this ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Students from southwest Fresno are learning entrepreneurship through sweet potatoes. Students in the Sweet Potato Project two have prepared the soil, planted and watered sweet ...