Curing sweet potatoes makes them sweeter and helps them last longer. Curing sweet potatoes involves drying them for several ...

Like all tubers, we expect our sweet potatoes to be hardy, which is why it’s particularly puzzling when we pull out a shriveled or sprouting yam from the refrigerator. Well, as it turns out, we’ve ...

Answer: Sweet potatoes should be cured to heal wounds and to convert some of the starch in the roots to sugar. The optimal conditions for curing are to expose the roots to 85-degree temperatures and ...

The other day I was at the Horticulture Research Farm talking with Corey Dillon and Merle Barto about harvesting Dr. Luis Duque’s sweet potato research plots. Duque is investigating different colored ...

This week's column includes tips for keeping sweet potatoes and berry plants safe indoors until spring, along with advice for ...

The humble sweet potato is both delicious and nutritious. It’s also not actually a potato at all. Harold McGee wrote in “On Food And Cooking” that the root vegetable native to northern South America ...

We’ve passed through the month for “magical” sweet potato development, so it’s time to think about digging your nutritious treasures. By “magical,” I mean some references say sweet potatoes double ...

The humble sweet potato is both delicious and nutritious. It’s also not actually a potato at all. Harold McGee wrote in “On Food And Cooking” that the root vegetable native to northern South America ...