Growing your own slips from sweet potatoes is a rewarding project so easy anyone can do it. Unlike regular potatoes, sweet ...

Yam sack farming is the growing of yam in sacks. The beauty of this method is that it allows even those with limited space to enjoy the benefits of homegrown yams. Growing yams in sacks is not ...

What You Need to Grow Sweet Potato Vines. All you need to grow sweet potato vines in your home is a large Mason jar or ...

Start by putting an inch or two of moist growing medium in the tray. Cut a sweet potato lengthwise and place the cut side down. Then cover the halves with another inch or so of soil or sand.

Yams are tuber crops and Uganda is one of the countries in Africa that grow yams as a food crop. Though the crop is grown in most parts of the country, there is more concentrated growing for it in ...

Each stick only lasts two growing seasons at most. As a result, yam breeders, scientists and local forestry groups are looking at alternatives for the vines to climb. A yam farm in northern Ghana ...

I look at yams like I do tamarillos, a once-a-year treat. There is nothing nicer than an oven-roasted big fat yam ... or two.

In the U.S. it is grown in the South where North Carolina calls itself the Sweet Potato Capital of the U.S. and Southern California where it takes from 90 to 150 days to grow a crop. The sweet ...

(Photo Credit: iStock / Getty Images) Yams and sweet potatoes are not the same vegetable. Although both grow underground, they come from different plants. Yams are starchier, drier, and less sweet ...