Have you ever planted potatoes? Well, it's important to know that, depending on the type of potato, they're planted differently. Seed potatoes, like the ones we love to use to make mashed potatoes, are cut in pieces, then dried and planted. Sweet potatoes, on the other hand, are planted with actual plants. I used to start my own sweet potato plants. You let a sweet potato sit way too long and it'll eventually start growing little shoots. You then break them off and put them in water until they r