You can also grow first early and second early potatoes in a large bag on a patio or balcony, regularly covering the bottoms of stems with more compost as they grow. First early potatoes can be ...

Flowering vines are a great way to add interest and color to bare walls or ugly posts. From purple to bright pink, there are many trellis-climbing plants to grow.

Lawn and gardening specialist at lawnmower brand Hayter, Chris Cooper, said March is the perfect time to start whipping your garden back into shape, and to begin mowing your grass.

Neil Sperry explains that the best holly for a privacy screen depends on the height you want it to reach — and how you plan to maintain it.

35 days time-lapse of growing a sweet potato in a water-jar. Sweet potato started to develop slips and consume lots of water, starting from about 2-3 oz/day to peak of around 20 oz/day when the vines ...

That is the definition of homegrown foodscaping if you ask me! Historically gardeners had to choose if they wanted to grow sweet potato plants with lovely foliage or tasty roots, but those two never ...

One of my readers asked me recently when a person should dig up her sweet potato vines and harvest her sweet tubers. Despite its name sweet potato is not a true potato. Sweet Potato (Ipomoea batatas) ...

This is the cultivar “Regal Purple” from South Carolina. There are about five other purple/purple cultivars being grown in California right now, for a total of about 1,000 acres, says Scott Stoddard, ...

Sweet potatoes and yams are often confused, but they are botanically different plants. True sweet potatoes are native to the Americas, while true yams originate from Africa and Asia. The canned "yams" ...

As president of both the Mississippi and U.S. sweet potato councils, Caleb Englert knows the impact this year’s expected below-average crop will have on the state’s growers. “Just like any farmers out ...

It is time for the sweet potato harvest. It is the best suited vegetable for Kansas if you don’t want to fuss over something. The only pest I have ever had was feeding from a deer. I planted the ...