While many Mississippians will enjoy sweet potato pies, casseroles and yams this holiday season, some are unfamiliar with how ...

Once you have the sweet potato slips, place them in a shallow dish of water for a few days until they produce roots. Plant store-bought slips as soon as possible to avoid wilted leaves.

Once harvested, Peters stresses the importance of avoiding bruising, scraping, dropping, and washing the sweet potatoes. Otherwise, they won’t store well. "The benefit of growing sweet potatoes ...

Ornamental sweet potato vine, as seen in the foreground, will die off in the winter but its tubers will remain to sprout ...

Jill ThomsonSaskatchewanWe have been growing sweet potatoes in Saskatoon for about 7 years, harvesting enough tubers to store ...

At home, store sweet potatoes in a cool, dry place away from sunlight for two to three weeks, per the experts at University ...