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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you are a fan of the color and ground-covering abilities of sweet potato vine but find they sometimes get a bit out of hand by late summer, you may need to try Sweet Caroline Medusa Green in your ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's peak time for annuals -- at least it would be in a normal summer. Looking at my dozens (really) of containers, I've decided the one that gets nominated into the Plant of the Week Hall of Fame is ...