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Lifting Onions
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When should onions be lifted for storage, or should I have done this already? Most of the tops have died back to half-green or totally straw coloured. Do I just string them together and hang them in the garage, or is there more to it? TIA Phil |
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TheScullster writes Hi all When should onions be lifted for storage, or should I have done this already? Most of the tops have died back to half-green or totally straw coloured. Do I just string them together and hang them in the garage, or is there more to it? TIA Phil Hi Phil, I would lift them pronto if I were you otherwise they may start to get affected by frost/bad weather and start rotting. The way I store them is to the clean off the very loose outside skins, cut off the roots and remove the tops leaving about a couple of inches. Make sure they are dried off. Then take some strong string and tie it into a circle the diameter or length being dependent upon the number of onions you have for storage. I find it best to put the string loop/circle on a hook letting it hang so you have the two parallel string sides. Take an onion and fix it to the bottom of the loop by weaving the couple of inches of old top in a figure of 8 and press it down tight. Then do the same with the next onion above and gradually work your way up the string until you feel it's "full". Then hang the completed string of bulbs wherever you feel is most convenient for access and use. Keep in a dry, frost free place and they should keep for many months. Any very large, exhibition type onions I store in a net bag also hanging it the garage - as I do with shallots and garlic. Undoubtedly you will get other storage tips in response to your question as there are other ways of managing the storage but I find the above works well. HTH -- Gopher .... I know my place! |
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"TheScullster" wrote When should onions be lifted for storage, or should I have done this already? Most of the tops have died back to half-green or totally straw coloured. Do I just string them together and hang them in the garage, or is there more to it? We have had ours in storage for a couple of months already, how come yours aren't dried out completely? If you don't store them asap they will either rot or start to grow again. Depends how dry the stalks are as to which way we store them, this year as it was so dry the tops were completely dry and I just cut them off (like the ones for sale) and stored in crates. Some years when there is still sap in the stalk we tie together and hand in the shed to dry completely. -- Regards Bob Hobden just W. of London |
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"Bob Hobden" wrote in message ... "TheScullster" wrote When should onions be lifted for storage, or should I have done this already? Most of the tops have died back to half-green or totally straw coloured. Do I just string them together and hang them in the garage, or is there more to it? We have had ours in storage for a couple of months already, how come yours aren't dried out completely? If you don't store them asap they will either rot or start to grow again. Depends how dry the stalks are as to which way we store them, this year as it was so dry the tops were completely dry and I just cut them off (like the ones for sale) and stored in crates. Some years when there is still sap in the stalk we tie together and hand in the shed to dry completely. You put yours up at the 'begining' of August? |
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"Ophelia" wrote "Bob Hobden" wrote in message "TheScullster" wrote When should onions be lifted for storage, or should I have done this already? Most of the tops have died back to half-green or totally straw coloured. Do I just string them together and hang them in the garage, or is there more to it? We have had ours in storage for a couple of months already, how come yours aren't dried out completely? If you don't store them asap they will either rot or start to grow again. Depends how dry the stalks are as to which way we store them, this year as it was so dry the tops were completely dry and I just cut them off (like the ones for sale) and stored in crates. Some years when there is still sap in the stalk we tie together and hand in the shed to dry completely. You put yours up at the 'begining' of August? Yep, they were completely dry by then. -- Regards Bob Hobden just W. of London |
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"Bob Hobden" wrote in message ... "Ophelia" wrote "Bob Hobden" wrote in message "TheScullster" wrote When should onions be lifted for storage, or should I have done this already? Most of the tops have died back to half-green or totally straw coloured. Do I just string them together and hang them in the garage, or is there more to it? We have had ours in storage for a couple of months already, how come yours aren't dried out completely? If you don't store them asap they will either rot or start to grow again. Depends how dry the stalks are as to which way we store them, this year as it was so dry the tops were completely dry and I just cut them off (like the ones for sale) and stored in crates. Some years when there is still sap in the stalk we tie together and hand in the shed to dry completely. You put yours up at the 'begining' of August? Yep, they were completely dry by then. Thanks, Bob My 'gardening' file grows apace) |
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"Ophelia" wrote... "Bob Hobden" wrote in message "Ophelia" wrote "Bob Hobden" wrote in message "TheScullster" wrote When should onions be lifted for storage, or should I have done this already? Most of the tops have died back to half-green or totally straw coloured. Do I just string them together and hang them in the garage, or is there more to it? We have had ours in storage for a couple of months already, how come yours aren't dried out completely? If you don't store them asap they will either rot or start to grow again. Depends how dry the stalks are as to which way we store them, this year as it was so dry the tops were completely dry and I just cut them off (like the ones for sale) and stored in crates. Some years when there is still sap in the stalk we tie together and hand in the shed to dry completely. You put yours up at the 'begining' of August? Yep, they were completely dry by then. Thanks, Bob My 'gardening' file grows apace) I might add it's been a very dry summer here although the onions grew well they did die off early and also dried well once lifted out of the ground and left there in the sun. -- Regards Bob Hobden just W. of London |
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On Oct 5, 1:54*pm, "TheScullster" wrote:
Hi all When should onions be lifted for storage, or should I have done this already? Most of the tops have died back to half-green or totally straw coloured. Do I just string them together and hang them in the garage, or is there more to it? Don't hang them in the garage unless you like the added flavour of carbon monoxide. What do you think your shed is for - drinking tea and listening to Radio 2? |
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moghouse wrote:
On Oct 5, 1:54 pm, "TheScullster" wrote: Hi all When should onions be lifted for storage, or should I have done this already? Most of the tops have died back to half-green or totally straw coloured. Do I just string them together and hang them in the garage, or is there more to it? Don't hang them in the garage unless you like the added flavour of carbon monoxide. The only way you could get CO poisoning in our garage is if you first took out all the lawnmowers, cardboard boxes, broken kids toys, furniture, umbrellas, shoes, single wellies, saddles, dog-baskets, alien artefacts...... What do you think your shed is for - drinking tea and listening to Radio 2? playing snooker. |
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, moghouse writes On Oct 5, 1:54*pm, "TheScullster" wrote: Hi all When should onions be lifted for storage, or should I have done this already? Most of the tops have died back to half-green or totally straw coloured. Do I just string them together and hang them in the garage, or is there more to it? Don't hang them in the garage unless you like the added flavour of carbon monoxide. What do you think your shed is for - drinking tea and listening to Radio 2? You're not one of these strange people that actually use a garage for a car, are you. It should be for everything except listening to Radio 4 and drinking coffee :-)) -- Gopher .... I know my place! |
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