Longtime gardener but this is the first time I grew sweet potatoes and now I understand they should be "cured". Just how do you go about doing that?
Gerry [img]/forums/images/icons/confused.gif[/img]
"Once sweet potatoes have been harvested it is best that they are cured immediately to ensure maximum quality and storage life. Sweet potatoes should be cured at temperatures ranging between 28C-30C (82-86F) for a period of 4-7 days at 90-95% relative humidity (RH).
Curing is essentially a process of exposing sweet potatoes to elevated temperatures and high relative humidity. This process is aimed at ‘setting’ the skin, healing wounds, and increasing sugar content.
If sweet potatoes are cured too long they will begin to sprout and therefore should be removed from the excess heat. Where potatoes are not cured enough, the skin will be more prone to skinning during grading and packing resulting in reduced quality. Sweet potatoes that haven’t been cured well enough will not hold up under long-term storage."
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