Legend has it that the sweet potato vine sweet-talked its way out of the vegetable garden and into the window boxes of fine Brooklyn brownstones and cozy California cottages. The dark purple blackie ...

For the summer flower garden, ornamental sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) make a beautiful, dependable addition. They thrive in the intense heat of our summers, and May through August is the perfect ...

Ipomoea batatas, or “Sweet Potato Vine,” as it’s commonly called, is classified as a tuberous perennial but is treated as an annual in our area. Although a bit smaller, this tuberous root is identical ...

Ornamental sweet potato vines seem to be everywhere: I’ve seen them spilling out of planters at the entrances of posh New York City restaurants as well as carpeting patches of ground in Central ...

And along the front yard's fence is a riot of plants competing for attention, with the sweet potato vines looking like the winner. But the plumbago -- with its bluish purple flowers -- is putting up a ...

Mississippi State University's Truck Crops Branch Experiment Station has several sweet potato vines growing in trial gardens. (Photo by MSU Extension Service/Gary Bachman) When it's hot in the summer ...