Sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) are usually harvested about 100 to 110 days after planting or when the plant’s leaves start to yellow. Though, sweet potatoes can continue to grow after their leaves ...

We all know that potatoes are a big crop here in Idaho, but have you ever tried growing sweet potatoes? Believe it or not, sweet potatoes aren’t really related to the regular potatoes we’re all used ...

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 ...

PRETTY IS AS PRETTY DOES: Sweet potatoes not only come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, but also in a rainbow of colors and flavor profiles. Even the leaves can be cooked and eaten like spinach and ...

When you know how to grow a sweet potato in water, you can get a dozen or more slips for free that you can plant in your ...

Sweet potatoes are easy to grow, but they require heat and a long growing season -- more than the amount of time listed on planting instructions. That was the conclusion drawn by the Master Gardeners ...

Vegetable completists who devour every edible part of the plant, from beet green to garlic scape, will relish the sweet-potato leaf, a late-summer harbinger of the iconic Thanksgiving tuber. Try them ...

Rice water is a no-cost, natural fertilizer that's proven to improve plant root, leaf, and even fruit growth. It works better on some vegetables than others.

Vegetable completists who devour every edible part of the plant, from beet green to garlic scape, will relish the sweet-potato leaf, a late-summer harbinger of the iconic Thanksgiving tuber. Try them ...