Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sweet potatoes root prolifically and slips are started indoors in water or soil or outdoors directly in the garden. Read more here ...

I love regrowing vegetables; there is immense satisfaction from getting another crop from homegrown produce. It has led me to regrow lettuce, leeks, and onions from scraps over the year, but my newest ...

Sweet potatoes are tropical plants related to morning glories. They require a long, warm growing season to mature, which is why they are a southern favorite. However, faster-maturing varieties make it ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - “Sweet potatoes are one of those highly nutritious vegetable crops that we can grow, but there’s a little bit of prep work that has to be done in advance,” said Jayla ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gardener holding freshly harvested sweet potatoes - Tom Werner/Getty Images If you've been interested in growing your own sweet ...

A reader asked if it is possible to grow sweet potatoes in Minnesota. Sweet potatoes can grow well in most locations. They are incredibly sweet and delicious. Today, there are a multitude of colors, ...

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 ...

Despite the summer’s rains, this was a great growing season for sweet potatoes. While they are tropical plants and typically associated with being grown in more southern climates, many varieties do ...

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 ...