Make sure you've cured your vegetables for storage before stocking them in your root cellar. Cover the base of the can with wood shavings. Add a layer of potatoes and a bit more shavings ...

Other Name(s): yam (but this term more correctly refers to the roots of the tropical species Dioscorea and is distinctly higher in starch and less sweet.) There are two basic types of sweet potato.

STARKVILLE, Miss.—It’s official. The Mississippi sweet potato is growing tremendously—in status that is. The storage root formally becomes the “Official Vegetable of Mississippi” on July 1, after ...