Clear plastic provides the heat and humidity sweet potatoes need to thrive in the Willamette Valley. (Gary Jordan) When he was nine years old and riding with his brother on the back of a two-seater ...

Do you wish you could skip trips to the grocery store and just reach into your pantry for sweet potatoes? When you think of propagating vegetables, you probably imagine the sunshine and warm soil of a ...

Compared to other crops, not many gardeners in our area grow sweet potatoes. Traditionally they have been considered a warm climate crop. Sweet potatoes are grown by planting root sprouts called ...

Yes, you can grow these tasty tubers in your living room.

Selecting the right size of burlap sack is essential for sweet potato growth. A sack of at least 50 liters is ideal, as it ...

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 ...

A while back I wrote about a couple of growing experiments another gardener and I at the Resurrection Community Garden were trying: sweet potatoes and peanuts. Now that the plants have died down, we ...

Q: Since I can’t have a big Thanksgiving gathering this year, I’m already thinking about next year, and I’m thinking it would be fun to try to grow more of the vegetables for the meal in my garden.

Q: Perhaps you can answer a question about starting sweet potatoes in jars of water. I have looked at many YouTube videos showing various techniques, but all seem to overlook which end of the potato ...

The year I first bothered to chit my seed potatoes, I thought it was going to be one of those fussy Old Gardener rituals that didn’t actually change much. I was wrong. The un-chitted spuds in one bed ...