2024年11月25日 · A few sweet potato plants can produce a generous harvest! This nutritious, sweet-tasting root vegetable is heat-tolerant and pest-resistant. Here is everything you need to know about growing sweet potatoes.

The sweet potato is a tender vining or semi-erect perennial plant grown for its swollen fleshy tuber, similar to an elongated potato. Tubers grow underground from the vine’s central shoot. Tubers vary from creamy-yellow to light brown to deep red-orange in color and from 4 or 5 inches (10-12cm) to 8 inches (20cm) or more in length.

Sweet potatoes aren't started by seed like most other vegetables, they're started from slips. Slips are shoots grown from a mature sweet potato. Learn how to grow and when to harvest sweet potatoes and also how to cure your sweet potatoes after the harvest.

2024年3月23日 · Choosing the right start for your sweet potato plants is like setting the foundation for a bountiful harvest. Whether you’re drawn to the ease of slips, the adventure of seeds, or the DIY spirit of vine cuttings, there’s a method that suits your gardening style.

2024年8月16日 · Sweet potatoes are fun and pretty to grow. Let's dig in! As a warm region plant, sweet potato plants need plenty of sunshine. The optimum is at least 8 hours of bright light per day. Because the plants are vines, they should be placed where taller crops don’t shade them during the day. These tubers are drought tolerant once established.

2024年6月6日 · Learn how to grow sweet potato plants in your garden, including tips for planting, controlling pests, harvesting, curing, and selecting the best type.

2023年3月29日 · While any outdoor area works to grow sweet potatoes, note that they flourish best in a sunny vegetable garden and can take 85 to 120 days to fully mature. There are more than 400 varieties of...

Quick Guide to Growing Sweet Potatoes. Plant sweet potatoes in warm soil about a month after the last spring frost. Space sweet potato plants 12 to 18 inches apart in damp, loamy soil with a pH of 5.8 to 6.2. Before planting, improve your native soil by mixing in several inches of aged compost or other rich organic matter.

2024年7月10日 · Sweet potatoes are easy to grow—you just need a little patience. We spoke to experts to learn how to grow, care for, and harvest sweet potatoes for delicious—and healthy—additions to your meals.