How to Grow Sweet Potatoes & Slips

Learn how to grow your own sweet potato slips, which is what sweet potato "starts" are called. Sweet potatoes are a wonderfully delicious and healthy alternative to potatoes and they are easy to grow. Buying sweet potato slips is expensive, so you can save money by learning to grow slips yourself. Click on the link to discover two common ways to grow sweet potato slips.

Article: How to Grow Sweet Potatoes & Slips

Seed Saving: Start Your Own Seed Bank

Save America ~ Save Vegetable Seed

This article really explains the history and importance of seed saving practices. Saving seed has been the HOT topic shared over picket fences among gardeners this year. As genetically modified and engineered vegetable seed sales grow in popularity with large scale farm operations, it is leaving a sour taste in the small gardeners' mouths who question the long-term reliability of man-made seeds. Click on the article link to learn more about seed saving and why saving vegetable seeds may save the world from starvation in the future.

Article Link: Start Your Own Seed Bank: Our Ancestors Realized the Importance of Saving Seed