PlantsVegetables & Roots
Sweet Potato
Ipomoea batatas
Zone 6a garden plant. Hardy through a Chicago winter unless the note says to pot it.
Hot-summer tuber, dug before frost
ModerateVegetables & RootsEdible
- Light
- Full sun
- Moisture
- Medium
- Mature size
- Vine 4–8 ft
- Spacing
- 12–18 in
- Bloom or harvest
- Tubers Oct
- How it spreads
- Annual
- What to buy
- Slips, after the soil is warm.
- When to plant
- Plant slips in early June. Dig before mid-October frost.
In the design
They are not winter-hardy here. Dig every year.
If you eat it
Cured tubers
Eat the tubers, not a random morning-glory root. You planted these slips.
Only eat what you planted and can name. This is not a foraging or medical guide.
