CHASE, La. — Hobby growers have a new edible option for their ornamental gardens by way of a Louisiana favorite: the sweet potato. Developed by LSU AgCenter breeders in collaboration with FitzGerald ...

Are ornamental sweet potatoes edible? If you want sweet potatoes to eat, the tubers from your ornamental sweet potato vines are indeed edible. However, you're better off choosing a variety that's ...

Our garden columnist is tackling a Thanksgiving debate: what is a sweet potato and what is a yam? And which one should you ...

Shirly Fletcher of Carlsbad posed an intriguing questionrecently: Can you eat sweet potato leaves, and if so, how are theyprepared? I’d never heard of such a dish, nor had I ever seen these ...

If you are looking for colorful additions to your summer landscape, sweet potatoes may not initially cross your mind. But you may want to give one of the newer varieties of this tuberous crop a shot.

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 ...

Varieties: Beauregard, Covington, Hernandez, Jewel and Picadito. Planting months for Northeast Florida: March through June. Cold tolerance: Not hardy. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword ...

Radicchio 'Rossa Di Treviso Precoce' is ready in 70 days and is great used in salads and grilling. Also try 'Rossa Verona Tardiva' for an open head salad. (Vern Nelson) Our garden has lots of visitors ...

One of the easiest vegetables to grow in our gumbo soil is okra, a heat loving member of the hibiscus family that can handle drought, doesn’t have major pest problems and needs little more than ...

I have some favorite plants in the vegetable garden, and one of the most treasured is the sweet potato. The vining sweet potato plant shades soil, winding around peppers and eggplants, and between ...

Sweet potatoes are delicious, nutritious, and relatively easy to grow in the home garden. You can incorporate sweet potatoes into the companion planting, succession planting, and crop rotation plans ...

Leaves of sweet potato plants and other tissues in sweet potato are found to have good amount of vitamin B6 and other water-soluble vitamins, in a new study. Leaves of sweet potato plants and other ...