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.

Foliage growing on a sweet potato tuber — it's these cuttings which you plant in the ground. (Flickr: Simon G Bradley Roberts)When to harvest sweet potatoes. Patience is needed, as spring ...

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 ...

Sweet potato is a great crop to grow in warm to hot areas, where it can often be difficult to grow traditional potatoes. It’s a very hardy crop and one of the easiest to grow, and it provides ...

Brad Canning shared a video to TikTok revealing how to grow a stunning creeping vine plant in your home with a sweet potato. He said all you need to do is put the potato in a vase of water.