Many commenters appreciated Angela's advice on starting sweet potatoes, while some offered their own ...

How to Grow Sweet Potato Slips in Water. The Spruce / Carson Downing. Growing slips in water is the traditional method used most often. It requires nothing more than a clear glass of clean water, ...

Some fruits and veggies are more challenging to grow than others, and if you're fairly new to the gardening game, you'll ...

Grow your own slips by using sweet potatoes sourced from a supermarket. ... As a fun experiment for kids, try suspending a sweet potato halfway into a jar of water.

Fry says sweet potatoes grow well in our area. ... Next, you take the growth off and put it in water. “Then roots will form and that’s what you would eventually plant,” said Fry.

Ashton Ohmstede, 12, joins fellow volunteers as they dig for any remaining sweet potatoes to be harvested from a large plot at the Giving Field community garden in Beaumont Wednesday evening.

Sweet potatoes don't require much fertilizer, but make sure you water your plants regularly to get them established and keep them growing. Additional watering later in the season will help them ...

If you need more ornamental sweet potato plants, tip cuttings will root effortlessly in water or soil. Although relatively carefree, there are a few problems to watch out for.

If you have questions about growing sweet potatoes or on other gardening topics, feel free to contact us, toll-free, at the UConn Home & Garden Education Center at 877-486-6271, visit our website ...