Growing sweet potatoes in containers lets you start earlier, manage space, and protect plants from frost. Choose compact, non-vining varieties like Bunch Porto Rico or Vardaman for easier container ...

Sweet potatoes are a popular crop to grow in home vegetable gardens, and the delicious, versatile tubers can be roasted, mashed, chipped, and more, once lifted. If you are worried you don’t have the ...

Use a supermarket sweet potato to start your own plants. Sweet potatoes like warm weather, growing during frost-free times of the year. Plant them in spring after the last frost and harvest between ...

Choosing the absolute best sweet potatoes in grocery stores may soon become unnecessary if you decide to grow them indoors instead. Sweet potatoes thrive when the world around them feels like a long ...

If my family depended on my gardening skills, we'd starve. But I'm continuing to learn and I have had some successes thanks to helpful resources and online advice from the University of Florida and ...

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 ...

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 ...