Question of the Week: “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 ...

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 ...

For the summer flower garden, ornamental sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) make a beautiful, dependable addition. They thrive in the intense heat of our summers, and May through August is the perfect ...

For the summer flower garden, ornamental sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) make a beautiful, dependable addition. They thrive in the intense heat of our summers, and May through August is the perfect ...

Mississippi State University's Truck Crops Branch Experiment Station has several sweet potato vines growing in trial gardens. (Photo by MSU Extension Service/Gary Bachman) When it's hot in the summer ...

Ornamental sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas), grown primarily for its purple, chartreuse, or variegated foliage, is a true sweet potato. As such, the tubers it forms are edible. Popular varieties like ...

Ornamental sweet potato vines seem to be everywhere: I’ve seen them spilling out of planters at the entrances of posh New York City restaurants as well as carpeting patches of ground in Central ...

Before being cut back this week, sweet potato vines were spilling out all over Linden and Atlanta. The green lush vines provide an eye-catching addition to the landscape even as they seem to grow with ...

Ornamental sweet potato vines come in many varieties, and a particularly nice one is the ‘Sweet Caroline Bewitched sweet potato’ (Ipomoea batatas). This warm-weather vine is not as aggressive as other ...

I grew Margarita ornamental sweet potato vines this year for the first time. I know that these plants will freeze over the winter. I don't know whether to pull it all out or cut it off leaving roots.