How To Harvest & Store Onions 

I always grow plants with my mum, and it's because of you that we can grow our own delicious goods ❤

your enthusiasm is contagious.

I liked the clear tutorial. A very good one 😊

Your Onions did better than mine this year, Brilliant job Ben 🙏🙏

This is a beautiful video Ben, and your onion harvest is exquisite. I am envious! Oh how I would love to have braids of onions for the wintertime.

Wow - absolutely awesome - One summer in a poor country, I met a family where the blind grandma was weaving the onions together. I have mad respect for old world traditions with food and food storage.

Please tell me you shot this last year. If you already have onions and tomatoes, I am in garden envy. 😀

Thank you so much for teaching us all 😊❤

your enthusiasm is contagious. TKS!

Wall to wall information and straight to the point. Best advice ever.

I've been v late in seeding out my onions - mine aren't even planted otmut yet 😅

I did a few onions last year! Didn't get any planted on time this year however! But I will return to this video again next year and get some going again! Thank you!

Thank you for this video. Very helpful as always

Excellent tutorial, thank you!

You are the Best Ben ! Just love your tutorial💕

Best year ever for my garlic and onions. They are drying all over my garage-braided or in containers with ventilation.

This is very helpful, because I planted some red onions this year! Thank you.

The string method; brilliant ! Thanks.

Thank you for good facts and inspiration!!

We need you on Gardeners world. I hear Monty Don wants to retire.

Thanks Ben for another great tutorial ❤❤ xx

This was a brilliant video. I’ve grown onions for the first time this year. They are plumping up well but I didn’t have a clue when to harvest them and didn’t know you had to cure them. Thank you. 😊

Great tip for stringing onions! Im definitely going to try it this year.

Hi Ben, brilliant video. Thanks for sharing and take care 😊

Lovely looking onions

Wow! They have grown beautifully! Mine onions where doing really well up and till May. And then as soon as my acorn try came into bloom they got chomped away😱. I love the way you tied your onions up beautifull!

Ahh your video is once again perfectly timed! Off to the garden and check on my onions!!

Good tutorial, easy to follow.

Great enthusiasm 😊😊😊😊

I wonder if you could do something similar in regards to garlic? Mine are nearly ready for harvest, and I'm unsure how to cure them. Thank you! I love all of your videos! ❤

Excellent video! I will use some of these techniques to store onions this year, and will try growing them from seed next year!

Howdy, Ben! Another great video. What a beautiful harvest you got!👍 I'm going to try multi-sowing onions next year.😃

Helpful, thanks. I will string , they look so good.🤗👍

Braided Onion is my FAVE classic storing!

Thank you 🙏

I’m hoping my onions end up worth saving,it’s been a Pretty wet one Ben,fingers crossed👍

Love my onions, there’s never enough as this Garlic😊

Love it, i'm growing onions for the first time this year and i'm sad I missed out on the bunching method you showed :( I'll definitely be trying the string method though, need to use the space as best as I can

Thank you! Exactly the anwers I needed right now. Our weather here in N.Germany is awful: wet, cold with very few sightings of sunshine. Difficult but the onions turned out terrific. I was too late for sowing seeds and used small seed onions but they turned out huge which surprised me. Interesting weaving method. Looks awesome..

Last year I plaited my shallots together (no string, just the dried plant stems), which turned out pretty well: Think I'm going to try that with my onions this year...

I always string my onions, they look good that way and store well.

Bright handled good scissors that are hard to loose are a tool gardeners need now and then/always.

I made onion ropes with last years crop and we are still eating them.Now I'm getting ready to harvest my Autumn planted onions in a few weeks time.

This is great I never know how to store my harvests. I love what you’ve done with your onions, but as a lazy person I think mine will end up in sacks. I am planning on plating my garlic together though x

This cold weather means everything's late & I doubt my onions will be ready before late August. I use the slatted benches out of my polytunnel for onion & garlic drying, as they're not being used & I set them up in the garage. As for storage; I'm a fan of traditional onion stringing & with Santero, they last through to at least mid April.

I enjoy your videos so much the information is easy to understand and absorb .I love that there is no yelling or waving arms around and drama .have you ever grown yard long beans ? Im told they are a gourd and therefore can be eaten raw unlike many beans ?

Me shallots are starting to fall over. I'll be picking them soon.

I usually plait the onions with a baling twine (similar to stringing you showed). Growing up my dad would pop them into tights...they were everywhere in the garage😀

Thanks for this! I'm growing Walla Walla onions this year and will try your tie up braid! I enjoy your channel as I think we have the same type of weather ~ although I'm in Seattle. Are you having a Juneuary, too? 💚

Thanks. Now i just need my onions to sprout!

I like that you remind me of The Farmer from Shaun the Sheep. Subd. This was really great advice and fun to watch. Thanks for sharing.

im sat watching in awe at your onions as i was too impatient and ate most before they got real big they where like silver skins hahaha , i do have some sets in , and some rossa lunga and spring onions but can you recomend a yellow onion to grow next year please

Hello. My onions were divourd by slags 😢 but my garlic is grait to the point that i have lefet some to flower for seeds ❤ I know you have answers regarding slags ,but this year thows littel critters have goon crazy My struberris are looking grait and now have started to send runers Thank you for All you'r videos they are a joy to watch. And , if you are like me and just starting to see how it is to grow staff , well this videos are a must

This is pretty much exactly how I do it as well, down to using the racks like that to hold them upside down. I grow about 400 onions each year, all Ailsa Craig variety in Scotland and usually my supply will last our family well into March or April of next year. They are a large variety, 4-6" diameter. I dry in the racks until the leaves and roots are dry and shrivelled with the necks almost completely closed off - about 3-4 weeks in the greenhouse then I twist the leaves off which seems critical to sealing the neck entirely but some say to just cut. I store in hanging net bags with 50 onions each.

Onion skins are great to add to stock to give it colour (they are a natural dye).

Was this filmed this year? All your plants are so far ahead of mine

Have you tried vertical growing with onions in sacks? It’s a sack filled with soil and little holes down the sides with sets growing. Iv tried it for first time this year. They not too big at the moment but thinking the holes may have been too small and maybe sets not sown deep enough.

@GROWVEG.please can you tell me when i can plant celery seed have i left it too late this year ? And how long does it take from sowing to eating please ?

'Flopping over to get ready for the colder months' Yep that'll be June in the UK atm 🤣

I planted 300 from seed and allium leaf miner as wiped the lot out not in the garden and at the allotment

Ben, awesome video! Question for you - I love using the onion greens. Is there a way to continue using them or do they necessarily have to be allowed to dry when onion-curing?

Very off topic but do you have any videos on badger defences? My sweetcorn and peas have been devastated! I have been advised that it’s no use in my area due to the local badger sets but I’m determined to beat them.

As a chef we ever put onions in fridge raw because the gas that comes from the onions turns foods rancid...!!

Will you please share where you get your onion seed from? Or do you grow your own?

White onions are hard to come by here in Central Portugal, but I favor them for salsas. I tried some Lisbon onions from seed, letting them bulb rather than pulling them when young. I expect they'll be ready to come out and cure in the next week or so by the looks of them. My question is -- I'm planting a variety of crops in one large bed, so what is good to put in the spot where the onions were once they're pulled?

Pulling onions currently. What causes the bulb and lower stem to thicken but not really form a nice round bulb?

I have a little hobby greenhouse 8' by 6' . It gets horribly hot in the afternoon sun, even with the vents open. Is the alternating night temp of about 70 and daytime soaring into high 90s ok for curing the onions? Should I put a little fan to move air through in the daytime, cover the greenhouse partway with shade cloth, or something? Any suggestions would be appreciated. I agree with the viewer who said you would be a great followup to Monty Don.

i store my onions by way of the onion braid

so alot of my garlic, onions and shallots have gone to start a flowers which I have removed but not sure I can keep any of them! this includes my elephant garlic…. thanks

What temperature to store them?? Hot where I live! Thanks !

Newbie grower here so excuse my ignorance. I planted out some Japanese onions and they’ve grown really well and the onion is showing above the soil now. However, I’ve notice today that a couple of them are starting to get little heads on the top which looks like another bulb. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? Thanks

My grandfather would braid the leaves together to keep his onions

I save and plant the onion stubs from store bought. The problem with this is you do not know what kind they are and the times for planting, harvesting, etc. I feel much braver now...😉

Do you just leave your onions to the elements, or do you water and feed regularly?

My greenhouse is very hot this time of year. Will high heat hurt them when you're curing?

What happens if you leave onions in the ground too long? None of mine have flowered yet, but the tops are larger than yours looked before harvesting, and some have fallen over.

My greenhouse gets pretty hot. What temperature is too high to cure onions?

What's the reason for trying to keep them out of the wind while curing?

Can they be braided like soft neck garlic?

i hang mine in a gazeebo but this year ive lost so so many

can you do the same with leeks?

Can you start onions next year from the seeds?

I don't know why, but onions and garlic are my most difficult crops to grow. I've tried winter onions from sets and onions from seed. But the sets bolted prematurely and the ones I've grown from seed are not even close to growing a bulb at this point in time. It's frustrating. 😔

Question.......the used tights.....washed or unwashed? Great Video Thx.

I usually just loosely braid my onion s and hang them

I just planted my onion seeds about 2 weeks ago. They haven't popped up yet.

I love useful knots, but can never follow how you do it, even in slow motion, could you just do a quick video with a step by step to make the slipknot? Thank you 😅

I have dimming hopes for decent onion harvest this year because we have had such cold weather they are not growing as well as usual, and I live in dread of bolting. However, your method of stringing them looks easier than mine so I will try that if the weather gods stop playing their latest game and let me have some onions to string at all. I always dry mine as you do, repurposing a series of pallets for the purpose, but once trimmed I plait them into their own string and suspend that from a dedicated pole in the store/pantry - after which I spend all winter trying to avoid walking into them. I take a string at a time and hang in the kitchen for use. As I said, this is a cold year [6 degrees in June!] in the far north and anticipating that [thank goodness I listened to the birds and ponies] I gave in as the year started and bought weed suppressing fabric to help retain soil warmth, which has saved the brassicas from total disaster. How I wish I'd done the same for the onion bed, even though I loathe the stuff. Mine are all still teeny tiny. All suggestions welcome!

Slipknot 🤘🤘🤘🎸🎸🎸

"An area of low humidity" Me, in the southeastern US: 🤨

My onions are a disgrace, second batch and still rubbish this year. The slugs have made a mess of the leaves.

Be sure to listen to Slipknot while making your slipknot to maximise it's weight capacity 🤘

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I made onion ropes with last years crop and we are still eating them.Now I'm getting ready to harvest my Autumn planted onions in a few weeks time.