Sweet potato storage

What variety of sweet taters you growing? Some have too high of a sugar content to store long term.

We can a lot of them. We store what we don’t can in cardboard boxes in a cool dry place, just check them often and trash any bad ones.
 
Also after you harvest them, spread them out on something like a tarp and let them dry out for a while.
 
In the old days they would just pile them up in the root cellar.

Then they would pull the ones out that were almost bad to cook.

My dad still won’t eat sweet potatoes today because of it. Lol.
 
We had a root cellar with 8’x3’ shelves, they’d get spread out rather than piled up. Dark, a little more humid that you’d expect, and cool.
 
I typically just leave mine in the box in the garage. I don't think I have ever had one go bad; but I go through them pretty quickly. But I also only have a bushel at any given time.
 
hp468 said:
What variety of sweet taters you growing? Some have too high of a sugar content to store long term.

We can a lot of them. We store what we don’t can in cardboard boxes in a cool dry place, just check them often and trash any bad ones.
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Not positive but think they are buregard
 
It’s been years since I’ve thought about long term storage of sweet ‘taters but years back my Grandpa would spread out a couple bales of hay in the corner of the corn crib and spread a layer of them then another layer hay and ‘taters until the crop was stored.
 
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