“I recently pulled out a decorative sweet potato vine as I was cleaning out my planters for the season and found HUGE tubers under the soil. I understand that they are not the tastiest kinds of sweet ...

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 ...

Years ago, Grandma grew potatoes in the veggie garden. Potatoes are fun to grow because all the action happens below the surface. The leaves rising above the tubers reveal nothing of what quietly ...

A. I think you're referring to the air potato vine, Dioscorea bulbifera, a fast-growing vine with large, spade-shaped leaves. It's native to the tropics. The vine gets its name from the potatolike ...

Ipomoea batatas, or “Sweet Potato Vine,” as it’s commonly called, is classified as a tuberous perennial but is treated as an annual in our area. Although a bit smaller, this tuberous root is identical ...

A plant enthusiast has revealed how to grow a stunning climbing vine plant in your house using a sweet potato. Brad Canning from Melbourne shared his simple guide to growing a sweet potato plant with ...

Anyone who's gardened in containers for long knows the magic formula -- for an effective container, you need a "thriller" (upright, showy plant), "fillers" (mounding plants on the sides), and ...

Q Can you identify this vine for us? It grows from a potato and produces more potatoes on the vine itself during growing season. It freezes but we harvest the potatoes and store them in a paper bag in ...

Today's topic is sweet potatoes. But hold the marshmallows; these sweet potatoes aren't for the table. For the summer flower garden, however, ornamental sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) make a ...

If you're looking for a new potted plant to place in your container garden, but haven't been finding something quite as eye-catching as you'd hoped, it may be time to look at creating a container with ...