Read on to learn all about growing sweet potatoes at home. Sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) are productive, delicious and super-nutritious. Few staple crops keep as well as these flavorful tubers ...

"Soil is gathered and piled on top of the base of the sweet potato plant," she says. "This process encourages tuber growth, which produces potatoes." Keep the slips well irrigated to promote ...

Sweet potato vines are easy to grow from existing plants. Cutting is the best way to propagate, but you can also plant the tubers in the spring. Take the cutting in autumn before the first frost.

House Bill 287 aims to name sweet potatoes new Mississippi state veggie. The House OK'd it, and it's going to the Senate. Do you know MS top crops?

A regular potato is a good example of a tuber. “Plant the sweet potatoes, ginger and yams in pots and leave them in a warm place,” Guy said. “Within a few weeks, shoots appear and the potted ...

the tubers will be the state vegetable starting July 1. It would join other Magnolia State icons, like milk, the state drink. The state does not yet have a state vegetable. Sweet potatoes ...