Only Onions
Jul. 16th, 2011 06:12 pm
I have a closet full of hanging onions, and now the trick is to see if they will last. It would be best to keep them at 40F degrees, but that's not practical during a California summer. I stopped watering them a few weeks before harvest and dried them in the garage for a couple weeks, and now they are hanging on long strings, in the coolest, darkest place that I have.
My fallback position is to dehydrate them, but that will be a hassle and the quality is never the same.
I like the red ones best, and should eat them first anyway, because they are sweeter and probably will go bad first. The yellows are strong tasting and are likely to last the longest.
I'm almost done picking the green bunching onions, and will plant more red, yellow, and green onions this fall.