Key Points Sweet potato maturity depends on the variety, ranging from about 100 days to over 120 days.A key harvest signal is ...

Sweet potatoes are delicious, nutritious, and relatively easy to grow in the home garden. You can incorporate sweet potatoes into the companion planting, succession planting, and crop rotation plans ...

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 ...

Enjoy the benefits of this root vegetable.

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. freshly harvested sweet potatoes in a persons hands - Bondas Olga/Getty Images Sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) are a nutritious, ...

Who doesn’t love a good tuber, whether it’s the sweetness of baked sweet potatoes or the crispy-hot goodness of french fries? In Southern California, tubers can be grown quite easily. We asked experts ...

You might want to consider planting a Hawaiian heritage plant that can add an attractive ground cover that is good for your garden while providing an edible staple that is good for you. Known in ...

Sweet potato, or ‘uala, was among the earliest food crops brought to the Hawaiian islands by Polynesian voyagers. While it is well-suited to the warm, temperate climate, cultivating the plant is not ...