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shameless dude 
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Posted: 24 Oct 2018 at 11:20pm |
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what do ya'll do to them after digging them up to keep them fresh? should I slice them and freeze them?
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Dave H
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Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 7:34am |
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I usually dedicate one vege drawer in one of the friges and fill it up. That really prolongs the useful life.
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shameless dude
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Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 8:22am |
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do you wash them and then refridgerate? how long would they last just sitting ona shelf out in the open?
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Dakota Dave
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Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 8:41am |
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If you have the yellow ones don't wash hang in a mess bag in cool dark place I have a walk in pantry. I've kept them till January. This year I grew the purple skinned ones they are more fragile. Had a small harvest so I cooked and ate them.
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Ted J
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Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 9:20am |
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I put em down in my root cellar. They'll last till almost spring. I've never tried freezing em. Maybe if you wash em and then vacuum pack? (Not cooked)
Edited by Ted J - 26 Oct 2018 at 8:58am
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chaskaduo
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Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 9:49am |
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Should ask AC Fleet or Tracy Martin. Just lookin at their harvest will just about fill ya up.
Edited by chaskaduo - 25 Oct 2018 at 9:49am
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tadams(OH)
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Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 2:01pm |
I put mine in a old cloths bask set a fan blowing on lot and caver to make a wind tunnel let set for 48 hour then wrap in newspaper and set the in heated garage they last into next summer.
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Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 2:35pm |
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I like a little sweet tater in my brown sugar and butter.
Same with squash.
Edited by weiner - 25 Oct 2018 at 2:35pm
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Ken in Texas
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Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 8:06pm |
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Sweet Potatoes keep plenty long enough to bed them in the spring for slips to grow next years crop. If you freeze them there goes next years crop. Freezing them to bake or boil when they have a long shelf life in a cool dry place? I just don't know. They may get like rubber taters if frozen whole. Cook em first like you was going to eat them then freezing makes more sense .
Edited by Ken in Texas - 26 Oct 2018 at 7:22am
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Tracy Martin TN
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Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 8:29pm |
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We always put them in the cellar. You could keep them in a crawl space under a house also. Cool and dry is the key. HTH Tracy
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shameless dude
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Posted: 25 Oct 2018 at 9:19pm |
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ain't gots no cellar, basement is cool and wet, no garage, no crawl space, guess I could puts them ina bag and lay them up next to the old lady....oooops...I mean the loving wife!
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Posted: 26 Oct 2018 at 7:08am |
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We use a stall in the old horse barn.gotta let them dry for about a month. A pocket left in the middle lines with about 3 layers of small sq bales around. Our winters are a bit milder than most above the mason Dixon line. Most years frost line is 8-10 inches deep.
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shameless dude
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Posted: 26 Oct 2018 at 8:23am |
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soooooo….I shouldn't cut them up and steam/cook them to freeze yet? we just dug them about a week ago, they are piled up outside.
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HD6GTOM
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Posted: 26 Oct 2018 at 8:31am |
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Ours don't last that long. I like sweet tater fries. Usually have a bushel or 2. They gets used before they have time to go bad.
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desertjoe
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Posted: 26 Oct 2018 at 8:46am |
 shameless dude wrote:
ain't gots no cellar, basement is cool and wet, no garage, no crawl space, guess I could puts them ina bag and lay them up next to the old lady....oooops...I mean the loving wife! |
Dang,,,Shameless,,,you is flyin in very dangerous territory with thet one,,,,tsk,,,tsk,,, 
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Ted J
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Posted: 26 Oct 2018 at 9:05am |
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I'm guessing he's not flyin DJ,,,,,,,,he's lucky he'll be CRAWLING if'n she see this!!
Yes Dale, DON'T cook them in any way. I'd try freezing just a few and vacuum for a few weeks and then thaw and cook. If they are OK, then you can do the rest.
Another idea,,,,,,,,,,,,just wash em and then vacuum pack em. You could then put em in your basement (even though it's wet it shouldn't matter) cause it's dark down there.
Might work...
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tadams(OH)
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Posted: 26 Oct 2018 at 1:29pm |
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Do you heat all the rooms upstairs, if not that would be a dry place my garage is heated but I keep it around 50 degrees.
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desertjoe
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Posted: 26 Oct 2018 at 4:03pm |
Man,,I just LOVE them Sweet Taters too!!!! ,,Fact is I got a sweet potato pie in the fridge I been workin on,,and,,,and,,,it bout gone 
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ac fleet
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Posted: 26 Oct 2018 at 7:04pm |
Bout 65 degrees is super,-- also dry. We have kept some right under the kitchen table for a long time, usually they go into the basement where they keep for over a year.--had to toss a couple bushels of last year leftovers to make room for some of this years crop. If freezing,-- we would cook them done, then bag and freeze, ( make sure that you get all the air out of the bags as you close them). We never tried freezing any , so I can't say as to how they would do.----If you do fries, partly fry them, then freeze. Mc D does their regular fries this way, so should work on sweets too. thanks; ac fleet
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Posted: 27 Oct 2018 at 3:09am |
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thanks ya'll for the info!
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