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 ...

Joellen Dimond replants the annual bed, and Suzy Askew talks about garden societies and clubs. This week on The Family Plot: Gardening in the Mid-South, Dr. Chris Cooper and University of Memphis ...

Sweet potatoes are easy to grow—you just need a little patience. A staple crop for years, sweet potatoes are fairly easy to grow right in your own backyard—it just takes a little time and know-how to ...

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 ...

Q. Can you start ornamental sweet potato plants from the tuber? I tried once, and it rotted. — Sharon M., Tulsa. These decorative vines are very popular. They are both attractive and very easy to grow ...

Sweet potatoes are delicious, nutritious, and relatively easy to grow in the home garden. You can incorporate sweet potatoes into the companion planting, succession planting, and crop rotation plans ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Growing sweet potatoes in containers lets you start earlier, manage space, and protect plants from frost. Choose compact, ...

Many gardeners new to Florida are surprised that they are a little behind when try to plant their gardens the same time they did “back home.” Most of our vegetable crops should have been planted in ...

Hello, Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners. Still enjoying wonderful weather in May. It is a busy time of year with graduations and schools finishing up for summer break. Congratulations to all of ...

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 ...