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 ...

Should you be looking for one heck of a vine to use in your window boxes, hanging baskets or even as a head-turning ground cover, you have got to give the sweet potato vine a shot, that is if you ...

Gardeners are always looking for eye-catching choices for a hanging basket or decorative pot, and, of course, plants with flowers are near the top of the list. Striking foliage, however, can be a ...

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.

This popular vine can't survive the winter outdoors in most of the U.S., but taking cuttings is as easy as pie and allows you ...

* What it is: A vining annual that's actually an edible sweet potato (just not very tasty) that's grown as an ornamental, mostly in pots and hanging baskets. This variety has large, heart-shaped ...

Q. Can you start ornamental sweet potato plants from the tuber? I tried once, and it rotted. — Sharon M., Tulsa. These decorative vines are very popular. They are both attractive and very easy to grow ...

Phyllis Lawton Cosentino's Mid City home is surrounded by a lush cottage-style garden. Before the recent freezes, sweet potato vines tumbled to the sidewalk in a dark purple and chartreuse waterfall.

A child hugs “Moe, the sweet potato” during the annual Livingston Sweet Potato Festival at the Max Foster Sports Complex in Livingston, Calif. Andrew Kuhn [email protected] Livingston’s annual ...

Q: We have a county ditch across the road from our house and the creature in the photo has shown up over the summer. From our house it looks like Bigfoot. Could you possibly tell us what it is? I did ...