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
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
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.
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.
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.
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 ☺️
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...
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.
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.
@@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.
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
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 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.
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?
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 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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
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?
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.
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
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!
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
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.
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 😊
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!
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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
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??
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.
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
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
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’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...
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
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 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
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.
Literally couldn’t live without onions 😂 favourite food
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.☀️☀️☀️🌤️
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.
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.
So organized and efficient
This will help me with my first ever onion harvest this year, thanks.
Thank you. I really like your rack idea. Gonna use it.
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 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.
Great gardening info!.. short and to the point!
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
Here you go: ua-cam.com/video/OfekhhNbxps/v-deo.html. It's an older video, but our technique is still the same.
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?
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!
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!
That was the best onion drying rack I've ever seen. Thank you!
Ok that’s pretty cool, had no idea you could keep onions for a whole year. Epic video!
Yum! Cannot count how many yummy meals start with chopping some onions. 👍😁
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
Learned a lot from this. Thank you!
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?
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.
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
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!
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.
I love that learning about growing weed also pretty much makes you an expert on a bunch of other plants too
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
Great info! Love the ez solution to curing and storing the onions for healthy long term storage. 👍👍🥰❤️
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.
Am totally fascinated by the curing rack. Didn’t know about this procedure. Thank you.
thank you so much for doing these videos!!! they are so so helpful
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
Your front yard alone earned yourself a new sub. Well done sir 👍
All the greens are edible, and delicious too.
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.
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 😊
Those are the most beautiful onions I've ever seen!
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!
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.
This is the best thing i've seen on youtube in three hours.
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.
Liked and Subscribed. I learned quite a bit from this video. Thanks from Chicago
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.
Thank you! I love learning new things!
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.
Thanks now hopefully I’ll be able to grow some like your’s this year!!!!
Very good. Surprisingly never enough videos explaining how to cure various crops.
For those of us still using store bought onions, how do we extend their life? Too often they end up with a dusty mildew and get soft.
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.
Gorgeous! Wonderful advice 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.
You made me cry
Love onions 🎉🎉🎉
I’m inlove with food natural smartness and generosity ❤
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!
Well documented and informative, subscribed!
Excellent!! I had wondered what the best curing was. This is awesome!
I am so glad your video came across my cell phone. Great information presentation. Thank you
It is my first year doing onions, garlic, and leeks. So far so good!
I love onions 🌰
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.
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
Very helpful! Can’t wait to grow my own soon! It’s nice to learn more about this process.
onions. one of the best ingredients in the world
A most informative and useful short video...Bravo!!
Youve struck the nail upon its head Sir!!...
Thank you for this video!!!
Thank you for this information. It's helpful to know how (and why) to handle onions after harvest.
Thank you for the info! 3-4 weeks is a long time! Glad I found out!
That’s amazing! I knew garlic needed that but I never knew onions did too. Learn something new every day 😊
I saw myself growing an onion in dream and found this channel and ended up watching all the videos, downloaded some. Amazing
Wow research from India is quoted. Proud
I love that drying rack. Simple to make.
I'm really loving the onions do garlic!!
Awesome info thanks 🖖
Subscribed 👍
That drying rack is brilliant!😃
Very cool. Thank you for the lesson. Best wishes
Great,timely video. I'm there right now! Thanks.
Growing your own vegetables is rewarding and fun for the whole family. 👍🏼
Wow, thanks for the " Loving Care of Onion! "
What do you mean by cauterizing scars? Sorry if that’s a dumb question.. so new to gardening .. planted my first garden this past summer
U are a wealth of information please keep doing what u are doing we need more people like u
plus I love where you grow them.
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.
If you want to grow onions this is a GREAT idea !