Harvest to Table

Sweet potatoes require loose, well-drained soil and about 100 very warm days. Sweet potatoes are usually grown from slips started from roots (to start your own add another 40 days). Set sweet potato starts into the garden about the same time you set out tomato transplants in spring. For sweet potato growing tips see Sweet Potato [...]

Sweet potatoes in 100 days! Sweet potatoes started from slips–rooted sprouts–purchased at the garden center or from a seed catalog can be harvested in about 100 days, even less. Short-season sweet potato varieties include ‘Beauregard’, ‘Centennial’, and ‘Georgia Jet.’ These three planted from slips will be ready for harvest in 80 to 90 days. Varieties [...]

Sweet potatoes are a tender, warm-season perennial plant grown as an annual. Set sweet potato starts or slips in the garden after all danger of frost has passed in spring, usually 4 weeks after the last average frost date. Sweet potatoes grow best where the air temperature remains very warm, from 75° to 95°F throughout [...]

• A sweet potato is not a potato, and it is not a yam. • A sweet potato can be prepared in just about every way a potato can. • What most people in North America call a yam is really an orange-fleshed sweet potato. The three sentences above are the basics of sweet potatoes. [...]