I think you're too late for cheap onions already Dove.
Germany and Belgium are having the same trouble we're having here
Here in Holland ordinary, run of the mill onions sell for around 1 euro per kg at the moment, compared to 40 or 50 cents this time last year. And special ones, like red onions or chalots are even more expensive.
But why on earth would you freeze onions?
They store perfectly well, in a cool, dark place.
I always grow my own and this year I used the last ones in June.
New harvest drying as we speak. A bit smaller than usual, but still a good harvest, which should see me through winter.
We can't guarantee a cool dark place ... the garage isn't too bad in cold weather ... but at the moment it's pretty warm ... it has a flat roof and gets the afternoon sun. I'm hoping my brother will be kind and keep me well supplied ... but that means a 2 hour trip there and back to fetch onions from his store
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
He was explaining yesterday that one of the big problems this year has been flea beetles ... they've been damaging the crops and it's been impossible to use any of the acceptable treatments because it removes the protective surface on the onion leaves and they then get scalded by the sun in the extreme conditions we've been having.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I hope for your brother that his harvest isn't dramatically smaller this year because of all the troubles.
That extreme weather is causing all sorts of trouble for farmers.
A huge company here in The Netherlands, which grows those little snack tomatoes, or whatever they call them, grows all of them in huge greenhouses and even they had real problems when the temperatures went over 35 degrees. A whole load of their tomatoes got problems with tough and wrinkly skins and weren't up to standard anymore. They have all their stuff well ensured, but they didn't want to throw over 6 million of those little tomatoes away. They first asked the local food bank if they wanted some, but they declined because they weren't packaged!
They then offered them for free to the general public. That gave an amazing insight into people's greed. There were huge queues and people showed up with huge containers. I saw on the news that some turned up with plastic baby baths or even cleaned out wheely bins! One woman told that she had bought a tub of those tomatoes in the supermarket and when she heard about the offer for free ones, she took hers back to the shop, and joined the que at the growers the following day with a large bucket.
kleipieper, [as a side note, I remember one summer an ice cream seller in Finsbury park, North London had a power outage and was giving away all the ice cream before it melted. It pretty much created gridlock. People were running and yelling in the street. You would have thought the apocalypse had arrived. It reminded me of those scenes in Ikea where parents fight each other to get to this season's "loving kindness teddy bear".]
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have 1sq metre less the bald patch where a manky cat poohed. Oh frabjous day, callooh, callay.
Next year going to see if I can repeat this success and also try a beetroot called 'Boldor' recommended by Dove and looking v delicious.
I have carrots!