Title: 5 Tips How to Grow a Ton of Sweet Potato in One Container or Garden Bed Description: Discover the secrets to growing an abundance of sweet potatoes, whether you have limited space in a garden ...

“What would happen if this limestone were to become extinct?” Deslin says. “The yams wouldn’t grow, and the water would vanish.” Deslin Kalaeng, right, and her family pose with Banggai yam ...

When left on its own, a sweet potato will start growing what is called a slip. When you start seeing this long stem growing from the body, you can cut it off and put it in water. After a few days, it ...

She’s also a keen gardener. This week, she’s on a mission to promote yams. I look at yams like I do tamarillos, a once-a-year treat. There is nothing nicer than an oven-roasted big fat yam ...

Some farmers have attempted to grow yams on trellises, which is a frame of wood or metal that is used to support climbing plants or vines. Most yams in Jamaica take about seven to 10 months from ...

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 ...

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.

I am often asked this question. Gardeners who grow their own sweet potatoes sometimes still wonder whether the root vegetables they have grown are the same as yams. Perhaps because sweet potatoes ...

Hanguozuo village, which specializes in growing iron stick yam, has harvested 70 percent of its 466.7 hectares of yams this year. Zhang Yikun, the village's first Party secretary, said most of the ...

how we get the yam seed, using the rapid multiplication technology which includes the leaf-bud cuttings that is when you cut the growing yam leaves with the stem along with it, which is the bud ...