Sweet Potato Bin

Drying the sweet potatoes pass through a drying step.

Sweet potato bin. Regular potatoes belong to the nightshade family. I was careful to water them. You can have homegrown tubers for months past the growing season if you know how to store sweet potatoes after harvest. Buy top selling products like idesign cabinet binz storage bin and oxo good grips compost bin.

Well it is a process that takes anywhere from 4 14 days. Many of the sweet potatoes have been treated to reduce sprouts and you won t know the specific type of sweet potato you have purchased. Most sweet potatoes in a traditional grocery store have been chemically treated to prevent sprouts so opt for a sweet potato from the local farmer s market instead. Select a variety of sweet potato that is ideal for growing in containers.

Sweet potato storage requires careful curing to prevent mildew and to trigger the formation of sugar producing enzymes. This is a very undemanding crop to grow. There is a propane dryer that is a part of the packing line that is used to remove excess moisture from the potatoes. Then the area is kept at about 90 humidity.

Growing sweet potatoes can require a lot of space however with the use of containers and compact varieties any gardener is able to grow their own. The sweet potato is a large sweet tasting root of the morning glory family. Sweet potatoes are drought and heat tolerant and have few pests or diseases. While tempting it is not always a good idea to rely on sprouts grown from store bought sweet potatoes.

Sweet potatoes are versatile tubers that have fewer calories than traditional potatoes and are a perfect stand in for that starchy vegetable. Shop for onion and potato storage bins at bed bath beyond. The sweet potato is also very nutritious and relatively low in calories. To grow sweet potatoes you will cultivate slips which are stems that grow when the potato is submerged in water for an extended period of time.

Sweet potato slips can be purchased from online garden sources local garden centers or hardware stores. Here are the necessary steps to grow sweet potatoes in containers. Drilled many many many holes in the bottoms and lower side however they were sitting on my cement driveway. Bin dump the bins of sweet potatoes are dumped into sanitized water to alleviate any damage e g bruising as a result of the bin dump.

It is where the sweet potatoes are placed in a hot environment that the temperature hangs somewhere between 80 85 f. Place the sweet potatoes on a baking sheet this one is helpful to keep it off the flat surface or place a tray on a lower rack and sweet potatoes directly on upper racks bake for 1 5 2 hours allow to cool then wrap in foil then place in freezer you can put foil packs into plastic freezer bags to organize.