In addition, nasturtiums are good trap plants for pest control, drawing the likes of aphids, flies, and flea beetles towards ...

Sweet potatoes are hardy and attract few pests, but these plants do benefit from weed suppression and even a little bit of dressing with compost around the plant once it is growing steadily. Light ...

Plant breeders work with the seeds, but for gardeners, propagating sweet potatoes by growing them from slips is more practical. With adequate moisture, shabby-looking slips usually recover quickly.

But today we’re going to talk about growing sweet potatoes. Not only will you end up with delicious sweet potatoes later this fall, but the plants themselves are really beautiful, too.

DEAR HELOISE: When I was a little girl, my mother used to start a plant with a sweet potato just by rooting it in a vase of water. Do you know anything about such a plant? I don't recall this ever ...

Allow six to eight weeks total for the sweet potato slip to grow large enough to plant in the garden. To cut the sprouting time in half or less, place the sprouting tray on a seed-starting heat mat.

Ornamental sweet potatoes are the same plants as the varieties used to grow the delicious sweet potatoes we love to eat. The ornamentals also produce fleshy tuberous roots, but they have been ...