Onion Harvest and Curing Process  

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Can you show how you "braid" your onions into bunches like you show hanging? Thank you!

Nothing is better in this world than hearing someone speak passionately about something. Even if it's about a simple onion.

In threw some old onions in the flower bed to compost two winters ago and now I have a recurring onion patch. My air conditioner drips on them in summer and that is the only care they receive. . I have onions to eat and it was all by accident. I love how hearty they are even able to survive the harsh Colorado winters and summers pretty much on their own. They seem to be happiest under a few inches of spring snow.

It's amazing that what I had as a kid (my grandma and almost everyone was doing this) is slowly coming back. I'm 43 and the last time I saw this I was like 10. Thank you for bringing me such sweet memories

Thank you for teaching me this. I've never understood why and how they tie them up like that. Also the beauty in seeing all the different varieties you've grown. Just wow.

I’d love to get into gardening before having kids so when they are born I can teach them how to do it too. That way, hopefully, they would organically understand concepts like patience and relativity after helping me plant and treat each plant differently ☺️

A friend used to keep his onions in a net that was strung between the rafters of his garage (like a hammock). He grew many different varieties. He also grew garlic and stored his garlic heads in the same way.

For those who don't have a rack like that....chain link fence in the shade.

Now this is worthy content.. informative, to the point and interesting. Much better than all the shock value content being stuffed down our throats

I don't think people understand how long produce can stay in storage before they are delivered to your grocery store. The produce that you think is fresh could be weeks or even months old.

Yep, my onions lasted a whole year. I still had onions from last year when the time came to harvest the new onions. It was wonderful

I also separate the double bulb o those with two stems in one skin. these double stems onions will not last as long as those that only have one stem in each skin. Just a heads up, this also works when choosing onions at the store.

Ok that’s pretty cool, had no idea you could keep onions for a whole year. Epic video!

Those are very large & healthy looking onions there!

I still remember as a kid when we were helping my grandparents, who at the time were living in the countryside and were growing most of their food, doing this process. The onions would easily last for a full year if you kept them in a cool, usually underground, room.

I work in the food industry and y’all need to tell this to the fuckers who supply our onions because holy shit

I love your curing rack! We will have to try to make one similar!

Hubby and I love onions, but man, I am so tired of cutting off squishy parts of white onions. Or the black mold under the dry outer layer. I buy a 10 lb bag and am forever dealing with rotting onions. Many times they are already rotting at the store (sams or costco). I used to store next to potatoes, but was told that would cause rotting. Niw they are in the 10% humidity, usually dark, laundry room on top of the dryer and I STILL have the same issues! Why!?!? What can I do to prevent this?

This will help me with my first ever onion harvest this year, thanks.

I have heard with some people weave the stems together to form a bundle, which is handy way to handle them, this is especially true for garlic

I have about 15 onions still hanging in my closet. Thank you for making everything I did make sense.

I’ve seen onions at the storage stage but not the process to get them to that point. Thank you for sharing your expertise with us all. Also you showed a paper with how to do this. Is there a website I can go to, to download or print it?

In my village people let the onion steam completely dry(yellowish in colour) in the soil itself, they don't pick up the onion when the stems are green. It reduces the area and equipment required for what the op did by hanging it upside down for 2 weeks. After drying in the field we pick up and tie them in bunches just like op showed in video, garlic is also kept in the same way for longer life usually onions end's in 4-5 months but garlic can stay up to 1 year or more. One more thing we do is separate the rotten one from the bunch periodically for longer life, same for both garlic and onion. when we find one rotten in one bunch we consume that bunch earlier than the good ones

All the greens are edible, and delicious too.

How do you handle onions going to flower then seed? How are you perpetuating your crop? From seed or from starter onion? How do you use this years crop to start next years crop? And…. Great video 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Thank you. I really like your rack idea. Gonna use it.

If you want to grow onions this is a GREAT idea !

That drying rack is brilliant!😃

Fantastic video I’m surprised this hasn’t blown up. Would red onions work the same?

So organized and efficient

I live in Weiler, Germany, place of the whole famous Hori Bulle...every year there is a festival where everyone gets their braids. I'm so happy to see this!

Literally couldn’t live without onions 😂 favourite food

I chopped a cup Worth of stems and froze to add to potato's TY for sharing 👍

Your front yard alone earned yourself a new sub. Well done sir 👍

I have never been able to grow any kind of plant that produces food, so I’m unlikely to actually use these tips. But, my goodness, your fascinating. Thank you for sharing these.

What a lesson! Why do you not use the green part, which is so good? I love onions! Almost every dish needs it! No wonder you created such great conditions to preserve it in best shape for as long as possible! Of all vegetables, it matters most!

Wow, great video showing a process I was not aware of!

I love that learning about growing weed also pretty much makes you an expert on a bunch of other plants too

50 years ago, as a child overseas, the locals braided the onion tops to make a ring and hang it in the open air once it was dry.

Next video, how to get them to grow like yours.

Wow. This info is priceless. Much gratitude 🙏🌸

Amazing. I love how you back yourself up with academic literature. I'd love to see a video on stringing onions together

Finally ... A Man Speaking WISDOM. THANK YOU. My Grandma ate a couple of slices of fresh cut onion at Every Meal. ( We won't even talk about the Black Pepper obsession) She was a very strong woman. 12 children. 32 Grands. A true work horse with steel focus. And wisdom. Never under estimate the power of Onions.

Perfect timing! I have a crop of onion and I was waiting for the leaves to go brown before harvesting. Now I know what to look for.

Just started trying to start onions from scraps if it works I’ll be all set now. Thank you

Thank you for this awesome short video! I am growing onions for the first time. I didn't know what I was actually supposed to do in regards to harvesting, curing, and storing them. Thank you again.

Great gardening info!.. short and to the point!

thank you so much for doing these videos!!! they are so so helpful

Those are the most beautiful onions I've ever seen!

Yum! Cannot count how many yummy meals start with chopping some onions. 👍😁

That was the best onion drying rack I've ever seen. Thank you!

My grandma used to string both onions and garlic this way back in the day.

There is a crisis shortage of onions in the Philippines, some people who work in the airline industry resorted to smuggling onions. Since the emperialistic colonization by Spain, Filipinos' character changed drastically loathing agriculture and of working the land. Practically all food are imported including onions, so expensive like gold , homecooks and restaurants are doing away with onions altogether. I warned my brother about gardening but his wife like all Filipinas cannot ruin their expensive manicures.

Boy I loved watching this. This is a great video! You have a beautiful onion garden. It's beautiful to see how you store them in covered shed. This is AWESOME! What a blessing and pleasure to watch this.

Hey Jared! I live in Pittsburgh PA, what variety are those larger yellow onions? I know not all sweet yellow onions will store long, due to the variety- that’s why I’m wanting to know the named variety you’ve found stored the longest for you. I don’t have a walk-in refrigerator, lol

Cool tip. In all my years of growing and storing onions, it never occurred to me to make a simple rack to slot them in to, I have always gone straight to braiding. This old dog has learned a new trick 😊

wait! there's someone with that much dedication to something as simple as an ONION?!

I'm new to growing home grown crops and was thinking about growing onions but afraid of wasting some if I grew too much. See this video gave me confidence to grow them and excited to do so, now knowing they can last that long

Thank you for the great idea. Onions in the phillipiines are so expensive, need ko keep it well.

Onions made me cry for the last time back in 1992 and I've never forgiven them since. 😂 I learned something from watching your video. Thanks.

This is the best thing i've seen on youtube in three hours.

Am totally fascinated by the curing rack. Didn’t know about this procedure. Thank you.

I spent many years working on vegetable farms. I can tell you leaving an onion in direct sunlight does not harm them. It actually helps them grow. We grew 300 acres of onions annually. The early market onions were harvested and then put into storage with fans. The constant air flow helps dry onions aswell.

Amazing. I'm learning.

Thank you. I've only had my allotment for a few months and started from scratch. I planted onions in September which seem to be doing well but this is helpful when I lift them. Cheers

You made me cry Love onions 🎉🎉🎉

Learned a lot from this. Thank you!

I saw myself growing an onion in dream and found this channel and ended up watching all the videos, downloaded some. Amazing

Great info! Love the ez solution to curing and storing the onions for healthy long term storage. 👍👍🥰❤️

This is great. there needs to be more food growing info put out there for people to find and pass on to the next generation

Ohhhh the Pethericks on RU-vid just ran across one of those onion drying racks in their convent restoration. Thank you for showing how it works!

That’s amazing! I knew garlic needed that but I never knew onions did too. Learn something new every day 😊

Thank you! I need how to do it and you just show me, I even will do the rack, I do have the materials. so c Thanks again! Rosita.

Thanks, excellent.

Very helpful! Can’t wait to grow my own soon! It’s nice to learn more about this process.

Thanks for showing a research paper from India. The farming there has been around for so long and the farmers are not treated as well as they should be for their contributions to farming studies and our food.

My Berber grandmother in Algeria used to do this when I visited her as a child in the 1970s and 1980s. They actually do this in the Middle East, Italy, France, Greece, Spain, Turkey, Morocco, and throughout the Mediterranean!!!

Wow! That’s amazing! Thank you! I have no idea how to keep an onion save all year. I HATE throwing food away when it’s getting bad because it doesn’t last outside long

what I find equally impressive is the rack you made in which to hang the onions.

idk why a video about onion came to my shorts feed but I enjoyed it

Liked and Subscribed. I learned quite a bit from this video. Thanks from Chicago

super informative thank you

onions. one of the best ingredients in the world

Dude is talking about being in a field but is literally in sidewalk area in a neighborhood. Love it.

Thank you for the video! It's been very informative. I've never grow enough to not use. Italian/Mexican. But now I know what to do. Cheers!

Growing your own vegetables is rewarding and fun for the whole family. 👍🏼

Gods I wish my father would do this stuff! All my life he has been "homesteading" but never gives a crap about actually prolonging or using food he grows past the growing season and it infuriates me! Why even grow two football fields worth of food if you let it all rot? One of these days I pray to have my own homestead where these kinds of tips can actually get used. This is a super easy and useful tip I'm saving for "one day". Thanks for sharing 👍

About 100 year's ago frenchman used to cycle from town to town selling onions in the UK, they came all the way from France

That curing rack is genius

It is my first year doing onions, garlic, and leeks. So far so good!

This man makes me want to start things that I won’t see through lol

Well documented and informative, subscribed!

That's actually really interesting. I always figured onions would just 'stay good' naturally... But now that you explained this - I realized that every onion I ever bought has a dry outer shell.. (..dry outer layers..? whatever the preferred term is...)

Excellent!! I had wondered what the best curing was. This is awesome!

I love onions 🌰

Yes! I hang my onions AND garlic like this to cure for 3-4 weeks depending on the humidity.

Very good. Surprisingly never enough videos explaining how to cure various crops.

I don't know how long mankind has known about onions (and garlic). But I think that without onions, the cuisine of the generations would have been completely different.

In UK we have problems with prolonged rainy periods just at the end of the growing period. Makes drying tricky.