Harvesting and storing the sweet potatoes

On Friday, Wifey and The Boy harvested most of the sweet potatoes from the garden.  My earlier assertion that sweet potato plants need a frost to sweeten up appears to have been grossly misguided after Wifey did some more reading on the subject.

What to do next is up for debate, though.  Some websites insist that you put them in a warm, dry room and leave them for a while.  Others say you put them in a cool, dry room and leave them for a while.

Since we'd have a harder time providing them with a warm, dry room that is also okay with getting dirty, we went the other route.  I separated them somewhat in some collapsible baskets in the garage, trying to minimize contact between them.

Once that was accomplished, I stacked each basket and then put the residual on a spare ironing board frame that was the victim of a Wifey project back in the spring.

We'll see how they do after a bit.  Some of them are so huge, we have a hard time believing they are edible.