Growing Sweet Potatoes in Maryland

A young potato plant with visible roots and emerging leaves growing from dark soil, with a row cover visible in a cultivated garden setting.

Maryland gives sweet potatoes what they need: roughly 193 to 216 days between the last spring freeze and the first fall one, and enough 90-degree days to…

Growing Sweet Potatoes in Louisiana

Mature potato plants in a garden bed with harvested tubers visible at the soil surface and a soil thermometer inserted nearby.

In south Louisiana, sweet potatoes go in once the frost risk has passed and the soil has warmed, and the real limit on the crop is summer heat and water…