sweet potatoes, japanese purple ones. I felt like garbage today, and am much better right before dark ! So, I wemt out with a shovel very breifly to see how the sweet potato bed is doing. Success !! But, i need tips before I take the rest, and I may wait another few weeks. I have about 1 pound right now. So, tips needed are : they seem to break off realy easily when harvesting; I have never eaten japanses purple sweet potatoes, so ideas would be good; when I pull the bed, I will have many, many pounds and they will need a set up to be cured before storage, maybe in the bathroom, with an electric space heater and run the shower to steam the room once or twice a day ?
Ok, did a search of the site here, and found it in an old thread about root cellaring and keeping foods "Freshly harvested sweet potatoes should be cured in a warm, damp
place?aim for 80-85?F and 90% humidity?to toughen their skins and
encourage healing of small scratches. We cure our sweets in crates near the
wood cookstove, with a damp newspaper spread over the top of each crate.
Then, after seven to to days of curing, we wrap the potatoes individually
in newspaper, sort them for size, pack them in cartons and keep them in a
cool room."
