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Help with storage of onions

little Polllittle Poll Posts: 49
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Good afternoon, I’m hoping for suggestions of how to store my onions and garlic as the become ready?

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  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    Hi @little Poll

    I lay my garlic out in the sun to dry and then I plait it and hang it in the garage or in the kitchen.  If the leaves break off after they are dried, I keep the "bits" in a basket or a net bag that I keep (from the oranges etc).  I don't make paste and store it in a jar, a the taste is quite different.

    I imagine you could do the same for onions.  Are they the brown skinned cooking onions or the white or red skinned salad onions?  White ones don't keep very long and the red onions should be of a variety that is a long keeper - otherwise enjoy them in your salads this summer.

    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I plait mine and hang them in the conservatory,  when they’re dry you can hang them in a shed.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • little Polllittle Poll Posts: 49
    Thank you.
  • little Polllittle Poll Posts: 49
    Thank you, the photo is helpful.😃
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    There’s youtube tuition for the plaiting.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • nick615nick615 Posts: 1,487
    When we tried plaiting, we lost a lot of individual onions through decay and re-sprouting so I laid last year's crop on a large stiff wire grill, horizontally in the garage and, apart from an odd one going squashy, we're still using the last of them now.  It does seem to be a bit of a lottery.
  • little Polllittle Poll Posts: 49
    Thank you, I’m thinking laying them on wire mesh in the garage. Thanks.
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