Saving Sweet Potato Roots for Growing Your Own Slips

Reader Contribution by Pam Dawling
Published on October 31, 2016
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Timing Your Sweet Potato Harvest

Usually sweet potatoes are harvested in the week that the first frost typically occurs in your region, so those in the colder half of the country will have harvested and those in warmer regions, maybe not. For those who haven’t, here are some pointers about harvest: Aim to harvest on a mild day, when the air is above 50 degrees Fahrenheit (10 degrees C), to avoid chilling injury.

In drought, irrigate the field before harvest, to avoid scratching the skin with chunks of dry soil. If the days (and the soil) are warm, a couple of light frosts will not harm your crop. Despite myths, there is no toxin in frozen leaves that goes down into the roots. Sweet potato leaves are completely edible. If frost does strike, waste no time — get them harvested within a few days.

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