Just Veggies

Growing Sweet Potatoes

I enjoy sweet potatoes immensely. I didn’t eat them often growing up because I lived on a farm that grew the other kind of potato, the generic white-fleshed, brown-skinned version. Truth be told, I prefer the sweet potatoes. The reason why? To me, they just have more flavor. And the bonus is they are nutritious, ...

Sugar Cane

Sugar cane—is it a vegetable? Or since it’s sweet, maybe it’s a fruit? It’s neither—it’s simply a grass. But it’s edible, so that gives me permission to devote one edition of Just Veggies to this tropical crop. If you’re like me, you’ve never really given sugar cane a second thought. Sugar, yes. Sugar cane, no. ...