Today's topic is sweet potatoes. But hold the marshmallows; these sweet potatoes aren't for the table. For the summer flower garden, however, ornamental sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) make a ...

Did you know scientist George Washington Carver was instrumental in creating new markets for farmers by discovering hundreds of uses for pecans, sweet potatoes and soybeans? Using a few materials from ...

For the summer flower garden, ornamental sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) make a beautiful, dependable addition. They thrive in the intense heat of our summers, and May through August is the perfect ...

Ipomoea batatas, or “Sweet Potato Vine,” as it’s commonly called, is classified as a tuberous perennial but is treated as an annual in our area. Although a bit smaller, this tuberous root is identical ...

Grow Your Own Sweet Potato Vines » Highlights from show: Native Flowers Marilyn from Simpsonville, Kentucky is a Bee Keeper that has a farm, but is down to just 5 acres now. With one-half of the acre ...

Are ornamental sweet potatoes edible? If you want sweet potatoes to eat, the tubers from your ornamental sweet potato vines are indeed edible. However, you're better off choosing a variety that's ...

Mississippi State University's Truck Crops Branch Experiment Station has several sweet potato vines growing in trial gardens. (Photo by MSU Extension Service/Gary Bachman) When it's hot in the summer ...

Legend has it that the sweet potato vine sweet-talked its way out of the vegetable garden and into the window boxes of fine Brooklyn brownstones and cozy California cottages. The dark purple blackie ...

Q: What’s happening to this sweet potato vine? One of our sweet potato tubers developed a bud and I planted it. Any ideas to help the plant? A: Congratulations on starting a sweet potato vine! Over ...

Fall has arrived and so have the chores associated with the season. The prunes have been picked and dried, the tomatoes are in the drier as I write, the apple butter is in the cupboard, jam and jelly ...

If you're looking for a new potted plant to place in your container garden, but haven't been finding something quite as eye-catching as you'd hoped, it may be time to look at creating a container with ...