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Harvest, Cure and Store Sweet Potatoes at Home

Growfully with Jenna

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Make the most of your sweet potato harvest! A quick tutorial on when to harvest and how to cure and store sweet potatoes at home; including a few tricks for curing potatoes if you don't have the 'ideal' curing setup.

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00:00 Intro
00:16 When to Harvest Sweet Potatoes
01:54 Curing Sweet Potatoes
03:50 Storing Sweet Potatoes

20 Comments

@Jammaster1972 2 years ago

If you want to avoid piercing the tubers during the harvest, grow them in containers then dump them onto a tarp.

@robertsmith9756 1 year ago

Holy moly some of those are the size of a head of cabbage!! Good job!

@krstoner53 3 years ago

I will probably get a few laughs here but I cure mine under an electric blanket with a plastic tarp on top of blanket in my basement. Works great though

@Chopperdoll 4 years ago (edited)

I’m like a archaeologist when it’s time to dig up my potatoes. Lol yours are huge!

@reneenewfrock5743 1 year ago

DOH! I built a 24"w×7'lx24"h raised bed for my sweet potatoes this year. First plants supposedly froze because we had a late spring frost. Planted more slips in May. I just dug up one plant (September) to see progress and wow. Can't wait to see the rest of the harvest at the end of the month. So happy!!!!😊

@Anthony-g2z 3 weeks ago

Nice looking garden

@TheTrock121 3 years ago

We had our best Sweet Potatoe Harvest this year - 45 lbs from 6 slips. Love them baked w/ butter and cinnamon and the Wife is even drying some to make dog treats.

@regatta2k 4 years ago

Who is the best home Gardner in the world?
Jenna, duahhh 👍

@sonyaPsalm27 4 years ago

I have NEVER seen a sweet potato so big! I love this channel!

@diaperjoeisaped1723 2 years ago

Hi there: It is Sunday night on October 22, 2023. I am in N. E. Ohio and expecting our 1st hard frost/freeze tonight. I just dug up my sweet potatoes a couple of hours ago and brought them in. Yours are much bigger than mine!
I found your video interesting as others have used different storage methods. I will try yours but in a modified format. Thanks for producing this video.

@andreamorse6064 4 months ago

I have watched many of your videos and finally subscribed. Came looking for consensus, en sweet potatoes, and I want to thank you for this video. It was clear, concise, and with your opinion made me comfortable that I’m curing my potatoes the way I should. Thanks very much.

@latauarobison6521 4 years ago

I’m growing or first year in grow bags. Will be harvesting sweet potatoes soon. Just trim off green stems and empty grow bags into wheel barrow to go thru and collect sweet potatoes. I am going to sit up a curing station in garage.

@snowfuller7599 4 years ago

We are just starting to plant sweet potatoes here in Australia. We are in our second month of spring. Next season, you should try "Ruth Stout method" for your potatoes. No digging involved. Just put the slips in a handful of soil after pulling back the thick mulch, then push the mulch back around the slip. I don't water or feed them at all. The mulch does all the work for you. When it comes to harvest, just pull back the mulch and pick them up. Easy as. Just an idea to try. Love your videos. 👍

@setnamalat6t3 3 years ago

I just harvested my first crop of sweet potatoes! They are HUGE!

@amywalker7515 1 year ago

We grow our sweet potatoes in extra large Rubbermaid totes with holes drilled in the sides and bottom. It protects them from voles and other critters. Only problem is that often they grow long and stringy or around each other making them hard to dig. We almost never have any blade marks because we use our hands to dig them out. You may have many more plants than we do and may not find our method practical. Next year I will only put two plants per tub and maybe they will end up more like what we see in the grocery store.

@Sheree-aka-SherryLynn 3 years ago

First time growing sweet potatoes in my new home near Atlanta, Georgia. Several of your instructions will work just fine here in my area. Can’t wait to have my first sweet potato from my garden in about a month.!

@1timejohn 2 years ago

I had no idea sweet potatoes were such a process when I planted them! I’m using a kiddie pup tent with a small space heater and a pitcher of water. Thanks for the guidance.

@lorettasullivan7724 1 year ago

I like your sharing about curing sweet potatoes. I knew that curing was an important step, but wasn't sure how to improvise for my own situation. Thank you!

@herhomeandharvest 4 years ago

Those sweet potatoes are huge! I certainly hope you and your family like sweet potato pie or candied sweet potatoes for the holidays!

@pastorbradrocks 2 years ago

I'm a NEWBIE-But I think I might have a cool thought for you. I planted Sweet Potatoes in a raised bed that I created using 2x12s... so the soil is about a foot deep... and when I "lift" the 2x12 FRAME off---the PLAN is for the dirt (which is all potting soil) to fall apart way more easily than my good-ol'l Tennessee clay would :-) - allowing me to more easily harvest my tubers! Hoping it would out that way! Thank you for this helpful video!