Step 3: Plant Slips. Sweet potatoes grow best when they are spaced 12 to 18 inches apart. Mariah Henry, director of urban ...

Purple-fleshed sweet potatoes need a long, warm season to produce a good crop, but the starchy, deep-purple roots of varieties such as ‘Violetta’ and ‘All Purple’ are worth the (120 day ...

Sweet potato plants can each yield eight or more edible roots. These southern staples are sometimes bypassed for more traditional Irish potatoes, but sweets are just as versatile in soups, stews ...

The Plant Doctor Tom MacCubbin shares advice about when to harvest sweet potatoes, how to root angel wing begonias shoots and tips for planting a vegetable garden in Central Florida.

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 ...

While sweet potatoes can be dug as soon as the tubers have reached a suitable size — between three and four months after planting the slips — the flavor and quality improves with colder weather.

Related: How to Plant Sweet Potatoes in Your Backyard, According to Experts. Signs They're Ready to Harvest. Before you go digging up your sweet potato tubers, look for signs of ripeness.

Planting and managing potatoes. Once the soil temperature reaches 45 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit, plant seed potato pieces in shallow trenches 3 to 5 inches deep with 10 to 12 inches between potato ...

The sweet potatoes that we eat are the plant’s tuberous roots. Being of southern origin, sweet potatoes can take the heat and even some drought and need to be grown in a sunny site with well ...