Bumper Onions Harvest! Growing our Own Food to last a Year
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- Опубліковано 12 жов 2024
- Join me as I harvest our onion crop for the year, and see how well our different varieties have done! This season, we grew three types: Exhibition, which produced some impressively huge onions; Ailsa Craig, a reliable all-rounder; and Sturon, which performed beautifully as well.
In this video, I’ll take you through the process of pulling them from the ground, weighing the harvest, and sharing insights on how each variety thrived in our smallholding. It’s been a great season for onions-watch along to see the results!
Hi Tracey and family, just needed to say your subscriber number, over 5000…well done you guys. 👏🏼I think i started watching you before the 1000 mark and look at you guys grow..as well as your homesteading dreams. Look forward to watching many more🥂
Ahhh that's so kind, thank you. We can't believe it tbh! You did, when we were just starting out. So pleased that you stuck with us! Memories :)
I've just come across your channel and started to binge watch great so far and looking forward to seeing more thanks
Welcome! Thank you ☺️
Loving your stuff, keep it up, subscribed yesterday ❤️
How kind, thank you 🤩
Really impressive Tracey. ❤
Thank you lovely 🥰
Yes surprised how small the root systems are but they obviously concentrated more on the bulb 💪💪. Have a fab and hopefully drier week, Ali ☔️☔️🇨🇦
Swimming today Ali, non stop!
Impressive haul there Tracy , they look lovely . I'll be listening for the eruptions in the next video 😅 .
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Well done 👏👏🎉🎉 that's a cracking harvest, I think my entire crop would be the same as your largest Alisa! Pretty much I grew onion sets this year 😅😅😅. Look forward to seeing the taste and storage results. Mike.
Haha thanks Mike, I’m really pleased. I’ve just managed to get some new sets ordered otherwise I’ll forget and times ticking. Take care.
Flippin' heck Tracy 😮 I'll be really interested to hear how the exhibition onions taste. I think you've achieved your plan to be self difficult in onions 😊.
Our roscoff onions grown from seed have done really well this year. Have fun x
I'll keep you posted! I hope we have enough, next year seems a long way away. So glad you have some good ones too! x
Lovely lot of onions.
Love em 😇
Incredible onions 😍
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i have just joined your you tube chanal what great channel to watch on UA-cam keep up the good work
Thank you so much!
Well done ! 🥂
Thank you! 😃
Absolutely amazing. I am looking forward to seeing how long they last.
You and me both! Can’t wait!
Absolutely amazing crop and those exhibition ones were literally an eyewatering size 😂 It must feel good to get them all in and stored for winter. My OW onions came out of the ground similar time to my normal onions and were huge like yours. I’ve sown and bought some OW senshyu onions this year to compare as my sown ones were so good.
Haha let's see how we get on with the exhibitions Gaynor! Couldn't believe it myself. I just love growing onions too!
Incredible crop! Be super interested to see which store the best. (PS - I’ve changed our UA-cam handle again to reflect the name of our new house but this is Emma). We are in and full of plans (and still wading through boxes!) First outside job is to get some beds in for garlic and onions so this is a great vid to inspire us to get cracking ♥️
Hi you and your new place!! Are you doing videos? I'll have to check. I'll definitely keep posting updates on my rambles re the onions. best of luck with the Autumn planting!
@@OurSmallholdingAdventure I’m toying with the idea of doing some vids - I’d really love to as I get so much from watching you and others that it would be nice to help even one other person in the same way. But at the same time we’ve no idea what we are doing and I’m sure I’d make a wally of myself 😂😂 - so far I’ve been posting a bit on Instagram - on our Otterwood Cottage account. Need to convince myself to be brave and do some videos 🥰
@@OtterwoodCottage I make a wally of myself all the time 😂 but I find it helps us focus too. Good to look back on. I wish we had a video of this place before we did anything but it wasn’t a thing then. Please do!
@@OurSmallholdingAdventure ♥️♥️♥️
Its nice to see huge onions but what do you use the most? My family prefers medium-sized onions so that it would be hard to find a use for that "Exhibition" onion you showed. Obviously, the main point when you're growing onions for your own use is: how do they taste and how do they store? I know you have a freeze drier so storage may not be such a big issue.
I've grown "Sturon" from sets before and been disappointed. Too many bolted. It would be interesting to see how you get on growing them from seed though. "Ailsa Craig" is probably my favourite onion. I don't want to cause an argument but, for me, it's got everything! I've never grown "Exhibition" so, if they taste/store well, I might be tempted to give them a try. I'm growing "snowball", "Radar", "Senshyu" and a red onion (I can't remember the name of) from set. These are already planted - started in Containerwise 28 cell modules about a month ago then planted out between all the deluges of rain we've been having. I have "Red Baron", "Noth Holland Blood Red" , "Lilia" and "White Lisbon" seeds. Something tells me I may have gone a bit bonkers when ordering onions ;-) It's too easy to buy the seed/sets when you're browsing through the websites without any plan on where you're going to put them all!
You mentioned potatoes - well, my "Charlotte" did ok. The "International Kidney" and the "Sarpo Mira" were both disappointing. I blame the compost. It's becoming very difficult to get decent compost without spending a fortune. You are definitely on the right track in making your own. I have chickens/quail (the quail produce a huge amount of "fertiliser" for such a small bird) but I don't have the space for large ruminants.
Hi! Not sure why you would cause an argument - not from us :) In answer to your question, the next 12 months will tell. What I do hope to find helpful for the large ones is just peeling once, then chopping and storing in the fridge to use as and when all week. Taste and storage will come. If they are good then I like the idea of 3 times the onion in the same growing space. I don't have a freeze drier. All onions will be kept as they are and if they start to turn, frozen or dehydrated (maybe thats's what you're thinking on the freeze drier?) Sorry to hear your Sturon bolted. I tried snowball and didn't get away with them but alot of that could be weather. I need to get mine in soon, time is running away but the weather is dry today (after the floods of yesterday). Nothing wrong with going bonkers over onions haha. Best of luck and thanks for your comment. Take care!
@@OurSmallholdingAdventure I thought I remembered you saying that you'd invested in a freeze drier on a previous video. My mistake.
@@ApiaryManager no probs at all :)
Blimey some of those are huge! Well done! My onions were larger than normal this year I wonder if it had anything to do with the wetter weather 🤔 anyway loving the videos as usual x
That could well be it - we will take all of the silver linings to the weather we can get hey? ;)
Hi, I have just found your channel, it it very helpful. Have you made a video about the knives you use for butchery? Would you consider holding workshops or training? I'm about to start on my own homesteading adventure. These things would be useful. Thanks😊
Hi! So good to have another person here. No video as such but a few folks have asked so hopefully will get to filming something soon. When we looked in to workshops the insurance and paperwork was a bit bonkers plus the reality is you’d need half a pig or whatever per person so what would we do with that after etc. all doable but maybe once we don’t work full time too. We would love to do it though! Happy to help if you DM us on instagram if there’s any advice we could offer :)
Hi , just stumbled over your vlog. What part of England are you from. Kind regards Nigel from the Netherlands.
Btw. Keep up the good work.
Welcome Nigel! We're from the North East, living in County Durham with a Teesside accent (and talk very fast haha)
@@OurSmallholdingAdventure I just click back into the video and yes I did recognise a little Geordie accent normally would’ve rang a bell straight away because my brother was married to a lass from Newcastle 🫶🏼. Anyway enough waffling all the best have a great weekend. Kind regards from the Netherlands Nigel Burgess
That are some good onions! 😅 we grow 300 last year this year we need to grow at 500-600
We are doing from seed
Sounds fab!
Ailsa craig normally grow to a good size but they are not long keepers i always use them first
That's good to know, thank you!