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Sweet potatoes are easy to grow and delicious to eat. But before you can cook with your homegrown bounty, you need to know how and when to harvest sweet potatoes and how to cure the flavorful roots.

They actually become tastier and sweeter in storage as their starches convert to sugar.

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This guide will help you harvest and cure sweet potatoes so you can enjoy them throughout the fall and winter months.

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When to harvest sweet potatoes

As the growing season ends, reduce watering sweet potatoes to prevent cracking, which can cause problems in storage. Sweet potatoes gain most of their size and weight late in the season—even after the leaves begin to yellow, so don’t harvest them too soon.

When to harvest sweet potatoes for the best crop? In fall, when the weather begins to turn cool and the vines start to wither. Aim to harvest before the first fall frost—a light frost won’t usually damage the roots, but a hard frost might injure roots near the soil

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