"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
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Pavel314 wrote:
We planted sweet potatoes for the first time this year and had a
bumper crop. I googled about how long they could be stored and got
answers ranging from three weeks to eight months. Has anyone had
experience with this?

Paul

I have been growing them for some years and trying various storage
methods. You need a cool dry place, not cold like a refrigerator but cool.
I grow them in summer and harvest in autumn when the frost has just
knocked them down or will soon. So they are dug about mid May. I still
have some left now which are OK. The weather is warming up for spring now
so they will not last much longer, they will either shoot or rot or both.
So three weeks is way too conservative and more than 5 months would
require temperature controlled conditions that I don't have.

David

My experience is much the same as Davids. If you do not have a cool storage
area, wash the sweet potatoes, bake in the skins and freeze in bags. I find
them to be good up to a year prepared this way.

Congrats on your crop, I haven't dug into mine yet but the vines have run
10-12 feet.
Steve