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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I grew Margarita ornamental sweet potato vines this year for the first time. I know that these plants will freeze over the winter. I don't know whether to pull it all out or cut it off leaving roots.

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 ...

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 ...

Sweet potatoes aren’t limited to Thanksgiving. In fact, sweet potato vines make great ground covers in the garden. Ground covers, which consists of low-growing plants, can serve as an alternative lawn ...