I am very discouraged to find I have had a sweet potato weevil infestation! I would have had a 50# yield (from 5 plants), but it looks like I am going to lose at least half or more. Currently I am saving out the roots that look like they have no damage at all, but from reading on the web, I have to wonder if those will be bitter.

Should I bother to try to keep any of them? Should I compost the leaves and bad tubers, or should I burn them? (Which is a big disappointment - I was hoping to chop and till the vines in for organic matter.) Does anyone know of resistant varieties I can try next year? Should I even try to plant them next again year, or should I give up on them for a few years?
Is there any organic means of controling them?

I would appreciate any help anyone has to give.
TIA!

Don't have personal experience, but hope this information proves helpful.

http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/veg/potato/sweetpotato_weevil.htm

Thanks.
I called a Mississippi extension agent up in Starkville, and found that south of I-20, the only way to grow sweet potatoes is to start on a virgin patch and you might get lucky and not get the little nasties. Virtually 100% of home gardens here have problems with weevils - they host in ipomeas that grow wild all over the place here. And there's not enough frost to provide any winter kill.

Unless I want to pay to have someone fumigate my soil for me. (NOT!) Guess sweet potatoes are something I'm just going to have to buy.

I got maybe 5-10 pounds that are useable out of my yield. I'm so discouraged I haven't tried tasting any yet. Hopefully the stuff that wasn't damaged isn't bitter.