Onion Harvest and Curing Process
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- Опубліковано 30 сер 2022
- Here’s how we cure our onion harvest for long term storage. Your homegrown onions can store incredibly well and feed your family on a year round basis, but only if they are cured properly first.
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I'm sure this guy and his husband are happy with every meal they cook.
Have u ever try cooking with the onion leaves, it's so yummy and full of flavor
@@abbeysotunde7599 😮 rly?? how do u cook with them?... they wouldn't soften / aren't rly edible, are they??
Is it possible to cure with the greens cut?
@@johnscape2297 Yes.
Can you show how you "braid" your onions into bunches like you show hanging? Thank you!
He shared a video in an older comment.
Here's a video showing how we string onions. This method is more effective and secure than braiding the tops. It's an older video, but our process is still the same. I hope that helps. ua-cam.com/video/OfekhhNbxps/v-deo.html
@@VegetableAcademy That video was PERFECT!! Thank you so much!!
@@VegetableAcademy Is this possible in Africa with an ambient temperature of say 30/35 centigrade?
@@chukwuemerie rainwaterrunoff.com/onion-farming-in-africa/
Nothing is better in this world than hearing someone speak passionately about something. Even if it's about a simple onion.
Onion is complicated.
Staying alive isnt simple, Its a million things all put together. Good to have friends like this that have a grip on it all.
Simple? Onions are almost in every food
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
Necessity is the mother of innovation
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.
For those who don't have a rack like that....chain link fence in the shade.
Good idea. Good question though is the pH of the rain gonna leech aluminum into them?
@@MrArtVein Probably not and even so who cares, cover it with a tarp
@@MrArtVeinyou cure onions in the rain?
@@MrArtVein aluminum from where? Chain link fence is metal.
@@tatanka8578lmao and what is aluminum??
Now this is worthy content.. informative, to the point and interesting. Much better than all the shock value content being stuffed down our throats
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.
Thank you!
Thank you for saying it all
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 ☺️
As long as you've got the land go for it. Heck you can even do hydroponics if you don't have the land
I grew up in the rural Midwest. My best memories are from working in the garden and fields. I learned life skills and felt a sense of accomplishment and competence. The foundation of discipline and self confidence.
I wish I got started before I had my 2 little ones. I'm just learning now and my 4 year old loves helping me put seeds in holes, etc. My 1 year old keeps pulling my onions and other seedlings out while they're still growing. She decimated my tomato plant. I really need to get a fence...
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.
What a wonderful canopy.
imagine the flavours
Good idea.
I learned that trick from one of my grandfather's gardeners over fifty years ago. It works so well.
Must've been a dry climate.
I work in the food industry and y’all need to tell this to the fuckers who supply our onions because holy shit
On god. The onions we get are bruised to shit, rotting or molding. Throwing away 10 ish onions out of a bag of 60 is a pain in the ass.
Very nice set up! Thanks for sharing
Ok that’s pretty cool, had no idea you could keep onions for a whole year. Epic video!
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.
Sad. What can I do? I don’t have the possibility of gardening
I love your curing rack! We will have to try to make one similar!
Yes. Would love to see how you made and sealed that rack. It looks simple, but so does growing onions 😁
@@l.sexton439looks almost like 1x1s laid out with cross braces and painted
I have about 15 onions still hanging in my closet. Thank you for making everything I did make sense.
I'm lucky, I still have a milk crate full.
All the spuds are gone.
Happy gardening.☀️☀️☀️🌤️
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.
Literally couldn’t live without onions 😂 favourite food
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.
It's wild thinking about how much old timer knowledge has been lost because we are all reliant on our food web keeping fresh food out in front of us all the time. I wish I could have been smart enough to take notes of what my grandparents did to help store food for long periods of time.
I love that learning about growing weed also pretty much makes you an expert on a bunch of other plants too
This will help me with my first ever onion harvest this year, thanks.
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.
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
How do you store without a walk in cooler? Somewhere in the house maybe? Will it last as long? Or close? Thanks
@@samjade3712 I used Patterson onion seeds. I grow them from seeds because I get bigger bulbs. This particle kind lasts a very long time, they have a mild onion flavor, they’re not too spicy, semi-sweet and they go good on lots of different things. Burgers, Hotdogs, Salads, Onion Soup, anything. It’s my favorite “All Purpose” onion. They are Long Day Onions though so not everyone can grow them, it depends on your region. I store them in a basket in my kitchen, making sure to rotate them every so often and removing any bad ones because the bad ones can make the others sick.
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.
Amazing. I love how you back yourself up with academic literature. I'd love to see a video on stringing onions together
Here you go: ua-cam.com/video/OfekhhNbxps/v-deo.html. It's an older video, but our technique is still the same.
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?
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?
That was the best onion drying rack I've ever seen. Thank you!
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!
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
only for one varity of garlic.
Fantastic video I’m surprised this hasn’t blown up. Would red onions work the same?
Yep. We use the same process for our red storage onions.
All the greens are edible, and delicious too.
Am totally fascinated by the curing rack. Didn’t know about this procedure. Thank you.
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 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Great question!
Thank you. I really like your rack idea. Gonna use it.
wait! there's someone with that much dedication to something as simple as an ONION?!
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.
Your front yard alone earned yourself a new sub. Well done sir 👍
So organized and efficient
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 😊
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.
I chopped a cup Worth of stems and froze to add to potato's TY for sharing 👍
Great idea thank you
Yeah keep all greens and freeze. Good for cooking salads etc.
You can also use them when making veggie broth
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.
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.
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
Nice! I'm glad you found this encouraging.
Just started trying to start onions from scraps if it works I’ll be all set now. Thank you
They won't grow bulbs just delicious and easy to grow greens you can trim and regrow for quite a while just using water changed daily. They're awesome to have on hand, I use them often
Wow, great video showing a process I was not aware of!
we watch different videos mine had great audio but the video was covered up by a photo of a person. I think teaching video should show what their talking about showing
Yum! Cannot count how many yummy meals start with chopping some onions. 👍😁
That drying rack is brilliant!😃
Wow. This info is priceless. Much gratitude 🙏🌸
Next video, how to get them to grow like yours.
Yes.
For starters, learn how we optimize the growth of our vegetables in my free workshop here: www.vegetableacademy.com/freeworkshop
There are a few other specifics that onions care about but those tips will get you pretty far.
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!
This is the best thing i've seen on youtube in three hours.
thank you so much for doing these videos!!! they are so so helpful
Those are the most beautiful onions I've ever seen!
If you want to grow onions this is a GREAT idea !
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.
My grandma used to string both onions and garlic this way back in the day.
Ohhhh the Pethericks on UA-cam just ran across one of those onion drying racks in their convent restoration. Thank you for showing how it works!
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.
I saw myself growing an onion in dream and found this channel and ended up watching all the videos, downloaded some. Amazing
Great gardening info!.. short and to the point!
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.
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
Dude is talking about being in a field but is literally in sidewalk area in a neighborhood. Love it.
Great info! Love the ez solution to curing and storing the onions for healthy long term storage. 👍👍🥰❤️
idk why a video about onion came to my shorts feed but I enjoyed it
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
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.
Liked and Subscribed. I learned quite a bit from this video. Thanks from Chicago
This man makes me want to start things that I won’t see through lol
Learned a lot from this. Thank you!
Very helpful! Can’t wait to grow my own soon! It’s nice to learn more about this process.
Well documented and informative, subscribed!
That’s amazing! I knew garlic needed that but I never knew onions did too. Learn something new every day 😊
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!!!
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
I need a man like you in my life!
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!
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
Excellent!! I had wondered what the best curing was. This is awesome!
what I find equally impressive is the rack you made in which to hang the onions.
It is my first year doing onions, garlic, and leeks. So far so good!
That curing rack is genius
A most informative and useful short video...Bravo!!
Youve struck the nail upon its head Sir!!...
I am so glad your video came across my cell phone. Great information presentation. Thank you
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.
this is such a quality short. informative, cool and cool
That is so cool im obsessed with your diy curing table
Growing your own vegetables is rewarding and fun for the whole family. 👍🏼
I like how he just mentions the "Walk in cooler" at the end.
I love that drying rack. Simple to make.
Very good. Surprisingly never enough videos explaining how to cure various crops.
Amazing. I'm learning.
Thank you for the great idea. Onions in the phillipiines are so expensive, need ko keep it well.
I love onions 🌰
New Subscriber. Keep the videos coming
Really a good video. I would love to see how you string them together
He shared a video in an older comment.
onions. one of the best ingredients in the world
You made me cry
Love onions 🎉🎉🎉