Growing Your own Vegetables and Fruits, guarantees you a fresh supply of organic produce at a very low cost.

Nathan Levy gives us a sweet potato growing tutorial in just over three and a half minutes.

Did you know the leaves are edible? And it makes a colorful ground cover, where you don’t have to mow the grass.

Growing Sweet Potatoes Step by Step

Special thanks to Nathan Levy of StPete.LocallyGrown.net

• Cut the ends off of a sweet potato. Preferably from a batch of extra delicious, healthy sweet potatoes
• Let them sit for a day or so. The part of the cut exposed to the air should dry up a bit.
• Plant them in the soil, sand is good. They will grow in even poor quality soil.
• They don’t really need to be fertilized.
• Keep watered.
• Once you have one plant, you can break off bunches of leaves and just stick them in the ground.
• They make a nice ground cover. The vines will grow and expand to cover a lot of area.
• Plant a bunch and you will have an edible landscape.

The leaves are edible too and make a great addition to salads. Nathan grows three different colors of sweet potatoes.

This makes a nice tri-color salad.