How To Harvest and Cure Onions So They Last You For Months!
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- čas přidán 29. 05. 2024
- Onions are one of the most underrated vegetables to grow in the home garden. They essentially require nothing but time and zero maintenance during the growing season outside of basic care. In this video I will show you how to know when onions are ready to harvest and also how to cure onions so that store in your pantry for months to come!
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Bout to come TAX that harvest...
Pretty sure I am actually due a refund this year
Lol
😂
"Flopped on the inside" is my mood today. I didn't have words for it. I feel seen, onion.
Haha, that is a keeper.
I was about to say the same thing. Lol
I think its a good tshirt idea. lil sad cartoon onion
We still demand the complete irrigation video 🧑🌾🧑🌾🧑🌾 🔥🔥🔥
Oof, I really need to finish it
@@jacquesinthegardenyou’ve got this! Lol
But in a kind way 😊
@@BigboiiTone but also pitchforks
@@R0D18or broadforks
Love that you incorporate how to cure them in the video, not just how to harvest.
I like to complete the picture
@@jacquesinthegarden Patiently waiting for Jacques cooking videos then ;)
For the garlic scapes. If you have too many and don't know what to do with them. You can place them in water till they flower. Once they go to seed you can plant the seeds right away and in a few weeks you can harvest them as garlic chives
I like to imagine that if I am ever visited by the ghost of one of my ancient ancestors and have to explain to them the purpose of CZcams, that I will show them videos of gardeners showing off their bountiful vegetable hauls. At which my ancestor will nod knowingly - perfectly understanding that this is why humans invented the moving picture machine.
That is the most optimistic beautiful take!
This of the only arguments for technology I have ever heard 😂
Very cool drying rack idea!
Brings a tear to the eye;)
Oh man, onions absolutely WRECK my eyes haha.
Nothing better than a harvest to plate meal with fresh onions
Fresh onions lightly grilled or fired in the pizza oven with olive oil is magic
The man has so MUCH harvests he needs a whole WAGON to carry the onions back! Props to you Jacques!
I just finished using the last of my stored onions a couple weeks ago. I was thrilled with how well they kept. Growing even more this year.
Its my 2nd year gardening and I planted garlic last year with the help of yours and Kevin's videos and my garlic came out amazing. Since you guys are local I always look forward to these kind of videos, they've been a ton of help. Looking forward to more! (Need an update on the natives!)
Very happy to help, also native gardens update include in the next video which is a full tour!
Thank you for the number of details to harvest and store these onions!
Thanks for the great idea for drying onions. I have a small greenhouse that has larger holes on the shelves and when I saw you turn yours upside down and put the stems through the grates, I knew mine would be drying that way this year. Absolutely perfect!! I also put my garlic in there as well.
Thank you Jaques love this one!
First year attempting onions....thanks for the helpful tips!
Love that drying table! I really enjoy that you are a DIY'er a lot of the time. You've given me confidence to try and do the same. ❤
Very easy to put together! And I can use it for washing produce as well!
Jacques you need to try garlic scapes kimchi. They’re sold as “garlic stems” in the Korean market
Woah, that sounds delicious, will for sure look for it next time I go to HMart/Zion
I harvested all of the scapes from half my garlic. SO. delicious. I dehydrated some and I am very excited to grind it up and see how it works as a lighter garlic powder.
Super timely video. Really helps with knowing when to harvest which I've started. Seems I did it mostly right. We shall see!
This was super helpful!! Thank you!
Very informative! Can’t wait to watch you harvest your garlic. Love your channel!
You’re so clever when it comes to making things work like the drying table😊 That is the second time I have seen someone talk about those garlic flowers. They kind of look like swan necks great video
Thanks for the advice 👍🏻
Thank you for sharing your knowledge to us
Thank you for this! Best onion harvesting and curing video I've watched.
Happy to have found this channel thx 😊
Welcome! Hope you enjoy the videos!
I grow the yellow Granex every year and they always perform well. This year some of them are huge and my tops have still not flopped over.
Thanks! Very informative.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for sharing this video
You bring me peace
This information came at the perfect time! I recently planted my onions and I am new to growing them and was needing information on growing and curing. Could you speak on starage? That would really help! Thanks!
I tend to just order some mesh bags and keep them in those inside my cupboard out of any direct light.
Love onions and Garlic.😊
Crucial to any good meal!
Hi Jacques! What do you do when it rains while the onions are curing outside? Do you let them get wet from the rain or do you cover them? What if I’m at work & we have a thunderstorm & I can’t cover them? Will I ruin my onion curing crop? I live in Northern NJ. Please send me some kind of tip. Much appreciate it! ❤ your channel! 😀
Thank you❤❤❤❤
You are so welcome!
If you finish all of those onions in just the next few weeks, you must LOvE onions even more than my mom AND have a family full of my moms. 😂😂😂
what variety of sunflower was that behind you?
I really need you guies to drop some lime green 6-cells !! 💚
Our reds were wonky this year.🥺😞 Our onion fairy said this year's batch were a bad lot. Luckily a family friend got his from another nursery, and is sharing the bounty! 😊
Hmm, maybe they were the wrong daylength variety for your region?
Questions:
1. If i planted onions in early march, why aren't mine bulbing yet? Lots of green onions to cut, but no bulb. Do you have a video for this?
2. His do you make them last for months instead of jusr a couple weeks. I store in a basket and feel i lose store bought ones quickly.
3. Do you have build plans for the cure table?! I love it!!!
...nay gave forgotten one. That's all for now...
Unrelated, do you know how to make onion or garluc powder?
When I look at my onions compared to yours, I feel flopped on the inside, too😂 . Mine are so small still!
They will get there!
I haven't planted mine yet, if that makes you feel any better
do you need to protect from rain?
Last years onion harvest was a bust. This year, I have a few big onions. So things are getting better but I haven’t yet find the sweet spot in my yard where they will be happy.
If you haven’t yet, check your onion sun hours. It’s how much sun they need per day to bulb. I didn’t realize it was necessary, and I definitely put them in the wrong spot, lol.
Would braiding the onions together like we did for garlic be fine? Or maybe too heavy for a braid?
Jacques, what are those gorgeous brilliant orange flowers that are in the front of the patch at 4:22. Thanks!
Those are strawflowers!
@@jacquesinthegarden Thanks! I guess I haven't seen actual strawflowers or maybe the angle is just making them look different. Love your vids and your information. Keep them coming, please!
How do you store them inside?
If you cure outside, are you covering or moving them if it rains?
So this is the first year - in my many failed attempts to grow onions - that my sprouts look somewhat promising. I think they still have about another month of growing, (previously zone 5b, now 6a). All the videos show perfectly formed onion bulbs above the soil. Did you need to spoon them or did they grow that way? Mine are all still green and not showing any signs of bulbs.
WERE DO YOU STORE THEM INSIDE
What do you do if it's going to rain before the onions are done curing? I'm curing my onions now (for the first time) and it's been raining almost every day so I've had them in the house but taking them outside on sunny days. Will this work? I'm in N. MS, zone 8.
I was somewhere around a month late transplanting my onions into the ground, do I have much a hope in getting a decent harvest? Or what could I do to help them out? Luckily I planted a lot of them, and some seem to be growing really quickly, but others have barely grown in the couple weeks since I put them in the ground and don’t look like much more than blades of grass
It is hard to say for sure but we have seen them grow year round with any issue. You can fertilize if the bulbs are small but once they really start forming it is best to cut fertilizer.
No luck growing onions like that in Portland, Oregon for me, Spring onions no problems but no dice with red onions or yellow onions, but I’ll keep the faith and keep trying
I had zero germination with onions from seed, so I resorted to onion sets
delicious onions and garlic
My red onions are still all green! Taking quite a long time.
Sometimes they can take longer if they have less sun overall.
mine too!
I thought I heard that onions flower in the second year. How do they shed the first year above ground growth to send up a flower?
Was Kev filming? Think I heard him giggle
I didnt even know my onions were sick...
Anyway I will watch your video
Is there any specific way that you store your onions once they come inside?
Does anyone have experience with pearl onions? I think I waited too long to harvest them because they are pretty big (I waited for the next to flop)
We have 2 weeks of what would MAYBE be considered winter. Our hardnecks only produced two scapes. I left them on to grow bubils and true seeds. Still had great sized cloves. Everyone should experiment to see what they get.
Very interesting, tried and true classic advice can be wrong for sure. It is all about your climate and region!
@@jacquesinthegarden totally agree!!!
"I think some people like to Fork them underground-"
THEY DO WHAT UNDER THE WHAT??
Hahaha
Will you protect the curing onions from dew or rain? If so, how? Thanks!
Luckily no rain here for the rest of the year! As for dew I was fortunate to have no dewy nights but being under the tree actually stops a lot of it as well!
@@jacquesinthegarden Thanks, Jacques!
Hey maybe this is a silly question, but can they be stored in place? Let them just stay in the ground until you’re ready to cook them?
They can but eventually they will start to rot in the sun once they stop properly growing!
@@jacquesinthegarden that makes sense, thanks!
The onions i buy at the store have often been in a warehouse for months and definitely dont last a month at home 😭all the more reason to plant them
I love your table! I just showed my husband and asked him to build me one!
I've never had success growing onions
did i plant my onions too late? i planted them in march or april and theyre just small green stems at the moment..
also I am in SD too where did you find that fencing to create your onion table? I have looked all over
It is usually available at hardware stores like dixieline, ace, home depot, or lowes. It tends to be in the garden center where they also have hardware cloth and t posts.
What about rain where you have onion’s stored
Then you will need to go indoors/shed/garage or fully covered but the humidity would still slow things down.
Onion God
I can’t figure out why, but I just can not get onions to grow here in the PNW. Apparently I’m just not good at it. 😒
I'm looking at all of the green - I would've left it in the ground. It might've been crowded, or it might've been shaded.
It was for sure both of the above for those plants. I am ok with eating them as spring onions and moving on, only about 6-10 onions were like that anyway.
Cutting fresh onions won't make you cry
Did you have any fog at night during those ten days?
No real moisture condensation, it has been oddly dry and not dewy at all!
My issue is my onions don't grow actual onions great stalks come up but no bulb.
"Fully mature and ready to cure" sounds like the slogan of some kind of crazy website.
Haha I said that and thought wow that rhymes too well...hopefully the website doesn't exist haha
2:43 story of my life! 🫠