How to store onions

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• Obelixx Posts: 30,090

  July 2020

  First of all you need to bend over the necks so the onion bulb fattens and ripens.   Once happy with that, use a fork to lift each onion so the roots stay intact an dnot damaged as this prolongs stored life.
  
  I use a wooden pallette, plonked on an old table base and with plastic coated wire battened across so there are holes through which I drop the garlic foliage for drying out.   My garlic has dried successfully (relief cos it mostly went soft last year) but is too stiff and brittle to plait the stems so have cut them all off and put the bulbs in a wire mesh, 3 level, vegetable basket suspended in a cool, shady place.   That has left me space for the onions to dry.  I'll try and take a pic tomorrow.  

  Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
  

  "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."

  Plato
  

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• Lyn Posts: 23,190

  July 2020

  After they’ve dried out on the pallets, you can try and plait them, as I didn’t  do very well😀
  
  

  Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 
  
  

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