When your plant reaches about 6 inches tall, Henry recommends "hilling" the potatoes. "Soil is gathered and piled on top of the base of the sweet potato plant," she says. "This process encourages ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

However, sweet potatoes didn’t really catch on in Europe — especially north of Spain — because of their long-season growing requirements.

In North America, we treat them as a warm-season annual. Ensuring basic soil requirements and growing conditions are met will put you on course for harvesting a bumper crop of sweet potatoes.

You can start your own slips, sprouts from an existing sweet potato, by purchasing “seed” sweet potatoes from a nursery; or you can start slips from tubers purchased from the grocery store.

When I tell people that I have grown sweet potatoes as part of my summer garden, the response is often that they didn’t think you could grow them in our ...

Learn a few different methods for starting your own sweet potato slips to plant for a bumper crop and delicious harvest.

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 ...