Sweet potatoes are grown using root sprouts called "slips." Grow your own slips by using sweet potatoes sourced from a ...

Sweet potatoes are easy to grow—you just need a little patience. Sweet potatoes have been a staple crop for millennia, and with good reason. These healthy root vegetables are full of ...

They're prolific producers, so sweet potatoes can often yield large harvests from relatively small planting areas. These ...

Vegetables. Unlike common potatoes, whose shoots grow from eyes, sweet potato shoots sprout from the end of the tuber. Sweet ...

Potatoes and sweet potatoes may share a name, but they actually come from very different plant families. Here's what you need to know about the health differences between potatoes and sweet ...

My neighbor starts planting his vegetable garden a month before I do. I’m worried about frost if I plant too early. What do you recommend?

Sweet potatoes are a nutritious root vegetable that can be grown in containers or garden beds. They require a long growing season, plenty of sunlight, and well-drained soil. Sweet potato vines ...

I jumped the gun and planted my small crop of potatoes on Sunday, March 15. The truth in this old wives’ tale is not so much in the date of March 17, but in the fact that planting in March will ...

Before too long, it will be time to start planting vegetables — at least some vegetables.

St. Patrick’s Day for gardeners is considered the beginning of the vegetable planting season. Irish potatoes can be planted now. Asparagus and rhubarb are the two perennial vegetables to get ...