Sweet Potato

Grow 6–12 sweet potato slips from one potato in 4–6 weeks — the leaf-stripping mistake that nearly halves your harvest, and a zone-by-zone start calendar.

Spot sweet potato weevil damage, black rot, and internal cork before your fall harvest — and learn why cracking isn’t a disease and exactly how to stop it.

Grow sweet potatoes in containers: why 15 gallons beats 5, which varieties stay compact, and the 5-day curing step that extends shelf life to months.

Cure sweet potatoes right after harvest and they’ll keep for 12 months. The exact temperature, humidity, and home methods that make it work.

Dig too soon and they’re starchy. Wait past frost and they rot. Read the 4 plant signals that pinpoint peak harvest — then cure for the sweetest roots of your life.