How to Cure Onions [for WINTER Storage on the Shelf]
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- Learn how to cure onions for winter storage, including two options for curing time, and important curing tips. 👇👇 catch Part 1 of this series on
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It’s September 14 2020. I just found your channel. I live on the Oregon coast near Newport. I hope you didn’t have any problems because of the fires. My name is Fitz age 70 first time gardening. I built a 10x16 greenhouse. Next summer I plan on having some raised beds. I’ll be following you I need someone who has experience with our climate. Just wanted to let you know that you have a new fan. Thanks.
Hey Fitz, I start everything in my hobby greenhouse internet spring and use mostly a raised garden setup of my own simple design,
Great video. Planting onions next year for the first time.
Love onions ! Thx much for the tips !! 🤗
I just harvested about 400 Paterson onions. I wouldn't be able to put that many of them on a wire fence, nor would I have the time to hang each one individually. Instead I put them on a sheet on the floor, in a spare room, and turn the fan on them on low, for several days, turning them over as needed. When they're mostly dry, I remove their greens, leaving around 4 inches of stem, so the stem area can close. When they're fully dry I put them in a dark, cool storage area, in a big cardboard box (I use a large cardboard guitar box) in a cool area of our home. It works well.
Do you leave them out at night as well or do you need to bring them in?
No they stay out the whole time
So now that you have your onions..What is your plan to consume them? Inquiring minds want to know.
@Black Pack Homestead Christ and Marella Ogden most of these will just be cured for winter recipes, but I did put 5 of them into a batch of home canned salsa!
Instead of your water hanging why don’t you lay it in between two sawhorses and spread all your onions through it so they’re all hanging upside down getting the best airflow one onion per hole.
This is my first time growing, harvesting, and curing onions and garlic. We don't have an ideal place outside to dry them like your porch, so I brought them inside out of sunlight. I hung them up using ribbon on our Bowflex (that's one way to use it 😄). They are under a fan for air flow and I hooked up our dehumidifier for moisture control. It worked wonderfully for our garlic, which we cured this way weeks ago. The onions are taking longer. I wonder if it's because they are so much bigger than the garlic?
I left my stems on, but could a person cut the stems off and let them dry on a screen?
Thoroughly enjoyed your onions tutorial! Turns out I was doing everything right but you still had a few tips I'll use in the future. Thank you!
Try cutting 1 inch notches in a 1x4 with 4" between notches. Affix them to the rafters of your porch, then just hang the onions upside down in the notches.
If you're too short to reach, a small ladder will help, of one of those grabbing things old folks use to pick things up.
If you have a lot of wind, some of them might blow down. Just put a nail in the end of each notch and a rubber band will hold them in.
You speak well and have good diction. Some people I don't learn much ftom since listening to them makes me a little nuts. I enjoyed learning with you and from you
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I like the copra onions. I've had them last 11 months. I braid them after they are dry. The only thing I don't like about them is that they don't seem to get very big compared to other varieties I have grown. I've never seen the hanging method before. That's a neat idea. I tried Patterson onions this year for long storage. They got bigger than the copra, but we'll see how they do.
How did your onions do?
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Thanks for the video on onions. I will definitely be checking out your other videos too.
I didn't want to sound untoward so I didn't comment but I was thinking the same thing because of standard female attire today.
I'm betting she made the dress herself.
Thank you, thank you thank you..I am in Mass and I had a great onion harvest! I have a table with a wire shelving on it and under my deck is perfect!
How do we cure them after rainfall following a pick without destroying the onions.
My onions have already flowered so I pulled them up today (my first time growing them). Can I not still let them dry to store them for later use? Also, can I save the seeds from the flowers for next year? Thank you.
I have found that those onions that have flowered won't keep very long.
Great followup video, super helpful thanks
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Great video 🤗
I WISH I had seen this video before today!! I just picked about a dozen onions and clipped both the stocks and roots off and laid them on the table to dry!! ... Had I KNOWN!???
I think they're ready now... are there any special ways or places you store them? I'm assuming the standard "dry cool dark place"...???
Hi Melissa, I watched your video again and it does appear that you keep the length of the onions in tack when placing them in the vertical wire fence. I'm very excited to try this technique for the space saving value and great air flow. Thanks for the tip. Do you bag the onions once they are completely dry?
Where did you get your copra onions and also Your Red Anchillian soft neck garlic? I've checked a couple of Seed catalogs but haven't found them.
I got the Red Inchellium from our local gardening center and the copra onions I ordered online from Dixon onions.
Can always count on your knowledge
loved it. didnt know you need t o cure them
Cool! I was just looking at my onions and thinking maybe they're ready, they are!! Thanks!
Thank you for sharing your experience with us 🙏✝️🇺🇸
Excellent! Thanks
Hi, I was linked to your video to watch and get educated about harvesting/storing onions and a political ad for Joe Biden came on before your video. I really didn't appreciate that. So, I didn't watch the video or your video
. Sorry Not interested in political agenda when I'm trying to get educated about harvesting/storing onions.
You do realize that I have no control over what ads TH-cam puts on my video, if you don't want ads then you have to pay for premium, this has nothing to do with the video creator
Very talented and knowledgeable speaker!!!
Melissa is DEFINITELY a GO TO person!
I had to pull my onions early bc of so much rain I was worried they'd rot. No end in site to the rain in the forecast. Can I cure them indoors with a fan perhaps?
Hi Deb, I had to do the same. Used some wire to set my onions on, then set that over a large open trash can (had used as a rain barrel). Set it on my tiny back porch, out of the sun and with a fan on low. Worked great. Dehydrated about half for fear of spoiling and stored the rest.
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Great information! Thank you!
Very nice!!!
Fabulous!
do you have to dry the stock with the flower once you cut it or can you use it immediately? also, do the flowers turn into seeds?
Thanks you
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Great info
.love it
Thanks for sharing
good information
Melissa, I was told ( and just clipped all my onions) that you needed to cut the stalks off to prevent them from reabsorbing the onion. Comments?
No, they dry out and allow you to braid them, they're a stem the don't reabsorb anything, the plant is dead after being pulled
Gd question, beautiful answer. I'm thinking I want these onions in my garden. I starting my plan for next year.
Have you finished curing your onions yet and befsn to braid snd store them? I'm not finding the video. Thank you.
Hi Katie Lingg I have the video of braiding the garlic here (exact same procedure) and bringing them in, they were ready first so I could film it in a timely manner. th-cam.com/video/41Usk3VSSTU/w-d-xo.html
@@MelissaKNorris Thank you
I'm wondering if I could apply this to store bought onions, which I'm assuming would already be drier. I got 40 lbs of red organic onions from a grocery liquidator. They look great but I'm not sure if I should put them in the basement in the dark or should I put them outside with air circulating.
I now live in Rochester, MN. Is there a way to keep my potted herbs throughout the winter? They are in cement planters a bit above ground.
Boy do I wish I had seen this before I harvested my first onions ever. I have 200 onions, let them sit in the sun, in a wheelbarrow for like 5 days. Then I clipped the ends off and noticed some were not totally dry. So I stuck them in black seed starter trays and put them in the sun again! Next year I will know better. Until then everyone gets onions as gifts for the next 2 months lol
Thus eaa the 1st year I grew onions. I bought just sweet onions as I didn't know they kept a lesser time. Next year I'll know better. I only have about 40 sweet white, yellow and red.
Thank y'all for all the tips. I greatly appreciate it. Blessings, julie
Thank you!
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Great video... you are very beautiful
She is, isn't she. I was just thinking she's is pretty. Some people are made for the camera.
Love this info....I had a porch like it...grew cobras and made a 2 shelf rack 24" by 6 ' frame with 2x2's and covered each shelf with plastic webbed fencing like screen. It held my flats of seed started plants from my basement to harden off in spring and my curing rack for root crops at harvest time...this info is important...thanks for sharing
If you aren’t storing for long term, can you just eat them?
Why can’t you just cut off the stems once you harvest them?
Because I braid them to hang for storage
Thank you. Great advice! God bless your work.
Very nice. Informative, and not a waste of time. Thanks.
Can we use the green tops?
You can use them like you would a scallion
Hi Melissa, When you use the vertical hog wire, it looks like you cut some of the green top off before placing them into the wire. In the second technique with the window screen, it appears that you leave the tops on. Does it matter, one way or the other? You cure for 2-3 weeks and then you are completely done right? Thanks for such a detailed video. Enjoyed it. John
I don't cut any off? But occasionally they break when threading them through. After fully cured, I braid and hang in the pantry but you can store in a breathable basket if you don't want to braid them.
@@MelissaKNorris Thank you for your great advice!
@@MelissaKNorris would braiding work with shallots? Would the process be similar to dry them ect.?
Yes, I loved this video as well as so many of your videos ! ❤️
Freaking GORGEOUS
Awesome advise! Thanks Melissa.
where and how do you store them in your pantry
Just braided hanging in the pantry
"THESE ONES"...????? 😯
Do you prefer to grow onions from seed or sets?
Cool on it thanks dear
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Could you make your next video wearing a bikini. I'm just teasing. I have a late Harvest. First part of December zone 9. What odds would you give for these curing in 3 weeks thanks
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I seen this video last Fall. This year, I'm looking for Copra onion sets or plants. I have found that whoever grows these onion seeds, for whatever reason, has stopped growing Copra onion seeds. It appears that Patterson has replaced Copra. Can you emphasize on this subject? Are you experiencing the same thing?
Your onions are very small
Ur videos r way too conservative. Do u live in iceland or something.
She clearly said she lives in the Pacific Northwest United States