Emma Cooper

If it has been properly cured then it will last at room temperature for over a year. When it is slip time, you can place it in a pan of water but better yet get this book: Ken Allen’s Sweet Potato in the Home Garden:

http://www.icangarden.com/document.cfm?task=viewdetail&itemid=3232

Seriously, it’s amazing. It’s been written for north america, but coastal pacific Canada is a climate similar to the UK (which is where you hail if I’m correct).

Oh and I’ve grown wonderberries and find them wonderful. They’ve seeded themselves again in my garden much to my delight.

I suppose you would store it like a potato or a carrot? Tubers have all that starch to get them through the winter, don’t they? Dry and in the dark is unlikely to be wrong, although it might not go far enough…

According to Jungle Seeds:

“You cannot store it Emma, you need to plant now and grow on to have larger cuttings for next year. You need to keep them growing all winter.”

So now I don’t know whether to plant it up, or leave it somewhere warmish (they have to be kept above freezing to be viable) and plant it up in spring.