Harvesting garden-grown sweet potatoes: curing?

[miguel]

Hit the garden first thing this morning to get the sweet potatoes out. Not too many, but enough to compliment a few meals and to have learned alot about how to do a better job next year!

My question for any of you sweet potato veterans...I've watched the youtube videos and read articles about letting them cure. But I don't have any room in the house that is 80-90 degrees and sunny all day long, as most of them recommend.

Is any dry place in the house good enough to cure for a week or so if I put them on a few dinner plates?

Thanks!

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

We just spread ours on a board in the unheated garage for a couple of weeks and we've done fine.

 

[natdscott]

Whut?

We gently harvest them, brush off what dirt we can, then wrap them individually in newspaper, and pack them vertically in 1/2 Bu baskets. Take 'em directly to the cellar that way, and they last almost until spring. Done.

-Nate

 

[lfacfp]

Sweet potatoes are to picked and stored with minimal handling. The sugar moves through the potato with each rotation/movement in storage and this causes it to not be as good and spoil quicker. I agree with pick them, pack them and leave them alone in the basement until ready to cook with them.

 

[bwframe]

I had a big harvest last year that tasted great all the way through this spring. I just sprayed them off thoroughly with the hose. Let them dry in the sun and bulk packed them in covered boxes. I kept them tucked in a cranny in the kitchen using as needed.