Great way to dry out your onions. I could not imagine a world without onions and garlic. Really feel for people that are allergic.

Excellent. Thanks for sharing. Two new things I learned here I didn't think of are, cutting the firmer part of onion near bulb and freezing for stir fry and soups etc. and air drying the greens and blending them for powder Great video Rachel. You do not disappoint.

I grew over 500 onions this year

I am lucky enough, in my 117 year old house, to have what is called a California Cooler. That's a pantry with a north-facing outer wall and a slatted vent to the outside. I may not have a root cellar but my CA cooler stores vegetables beautifully! 💚

I just ate my last 2023 onion last weekend, and I'm harvesting the 2024 this weekend. 3rd year growing Patterson yellow onions, they store great, never had one go bad even if I just store them in a basket in the living room.

We use a lot of onions as well. I canned 50 pounds of carmellized onions last summer and through the winter months we used them all. I need to can onions again this summer. Also, I canned he Lemon Curd it was a great hit.

@vickiwestlund1837

24 күн бұрын

Would you mind sharing how you cook and can them? Times? PC I assume?

We did a very similar method. Only we used a piece of chicken wire fencing. Worked just as well!😘🙏🏻❤✨

Thanks for the tip! Like the frame idea😁

My dad loved a onion right from the garden.. he would eat it like an apple..❤❤great memory.. thank rachel for reminding me..

One year I used cooling racks to dry out my onions. Mine stack four high. It worked out fine and I already had them.

Love your curing rack! Thank you for sharing Todd's idea with us! Blessings Kiddo!🌻🐛🌿💚🙏💕

Hi Rachel. Very nice harvest and more coming 🙂Thanks for sharing you technics and ideas.

Great idea for the onions. Love, love your chimes!

Always love your videos

Beautiful!!’❤

Thanks for this video. I was trying to decide when I should harvest my onions in NE Ohio--zone 6A. We eat onions almost everyday, too!

my second year growing onions - thanks for the tips on how to use the rest of the onion (not just the bulb!)

You inspired me to grow onions for the first time this year and I’ve also gotten several comments about how many we have growing and if we would eat that many, lol!!

It is my first time on your channel and I have just subscribed. Lovely harvest. Keep up the good work. All the best on this journey.🙏

You are lucky to get rain. We are so so hot and dry here in Ky. You're 🧅 good great i love 🧅.

Thanks for all the great info on onions. I grew some this year and now I know what to do when they are ready❤

Thank you for sharing the information on curing onions. I just bent over the remaining tall greens of the onions. I'm hoping they'll dry out some before bringing them in to cure. For those of us who do not have a covered porch or well ventilated covered outdoor area: I cure them inside on a table covered in cardboard with a fan oscillating over them. And turn them daily or so. Always good to have options. Perhaps I'll get a screen table made to help ensure airflow now. Please take us along on your many ways of preserving onions in canning. ❤

I couldn't fully cure my onions this year because we started getting temps in the 90's really early. I pulled them inside after only a week of curing after I found some were soft already from the high temps. Now I have been working through them as fast as possible the past week canning every onion-heavy recipe I can find. I made French onion soup, honey onions, pickled onions, balsamic maple onion jam, red onion marmalade and caramelized onions (Thanks for the inspiration and recipes, Rachel!) I'm hoping the onions I have left will last until I have enough tomatoes for a batch of salsa and spaghetti sauce but if they start to go soft I'll be chopping them and freezing to use later. I also found a recipe for Vidalia Onion Relish from the UGA/USDA canning website, but it makes a lot and I already have other types of relish on my shelf. Hope you don't have the super high temps we got down here in NC!

very interesting way to cure onion

Hi Rachel. I love onions 🧅in soups, stews, beans 🫘 and lot's more stuff. But to get them from the garden is fun. I have to wait for the farmer's market to start soon in August. Then I can buy onions 🧅 from them. The red onions are my favorite. God Bless the harvest and you Rachel. Your the best. HUGS 🤗. Mari'a. 🤗🤗♥️♥️🤗♥️🤗♥️🤗🧅🧅🧅🌺🪻🌸🌻👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍One more thing. The weather here in the City 🏙️ is getting worse. The heatwave is murder on my health. But I am hanging on. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤👍👍👍👍👍👍

@cynthiafisher9907

23 күн бұрын

I’m sorry, Mari’a, I hope you will get through this heat wave ok.

Hi Rachel! I always use my onion tops for onion powder too. There is nothing like the taste of your own spices. Happy gardening from the Oregon coast.

Tod is pretty ingenious :) Cool rack. I used a cloths line and clips then hung mine under a awning last year, it worked great, but love this idea!!!

I here your wind chimes I have several different sizes around our house and garden I love them

Ill be pulling my carrots real soon. will be canning them

I love your French onion soup recipe!! Its a staple in our house. Loving your more frequent uploads. Would also like to see your market stand.

@1870s

23 күн бұрын

Next video is all about the Farm Stand :)

I had to look up the bnsf railroad map because that train horn sounded just like the one that comes through here in Montana and sure enough the path is straight to you in Michigan! I had to pause the video because I wasn't sure if it was here or on my phone 😂

@cynthiafisher9907

23 күн бұрын

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Thank you

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I started pulling some of my onions that the necks have flopped over. I usually chop and freeze 90% of mine.

Always amazing tid-bits of information THANK YOU for sharing your knowledge

Great idea maybe the bugs and critters will leave them alone

nice onion shelf

Beautiful we also use alot of onion 🌰 s. Love from Virginia ♥️

Beautiful harvest! I hope we will get to see the rest being harvested but I am sure taking the camera out in the rain to harvest these wasn't really an option. LOL

@katherineburden5416

24 күн бұрын

Rachel recorded harvesting the onions in a previous video. She was surprised they were ready so early.

OK I need the link to those Sandals you are wearing please. They look so comfortable. Also, I love the curing rack that Todd made. I just showed it to my husband while you were talking 😊

I grew onions for 1rst time. I was experimenting. SC very hot and humid many rotted within days of harvesting. I am not wanting to store,but use in recipes for a few weeks. I want to tey again. I can plant soon for next yrs harvest

Hi Rachel, I have a question. I was watching one of your videos about how to grow bigger onions. You cut the tops off while they were still growing and you "spooned" around each bulb to encourage them to be able to grow bigger! My question is, did that work for you? I see in this video that your onions that you harvested, the green tops had not been cut off! Would you please go into detail how you grow them! Thanks

i go through a ton of onions to canning cooking eating ect

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Your reciepes for onion powder and onion jam.

Have a question nothing to do with onions, which look fantastic. How do you keep earnings and spiders off that beautiful daybed or swing.

I love this curing technique thank you for sharing this. Can you do this with garlic as well? I'm assuming so.

@1870s

22 күн бұрын

Yes, Garlic needs to be cured as well.

How do you protect the onions if it rains while they are outside curing? Do you cover them until the moisture passes? The rack is a great idea! 😊

Pickle works. Tough to keep them fresh.

Hi Rachel & Todd 7-12-2024❤

I just harvested my onions too. Did you start yours from seeds or starts? I ordered starts but I’ve heard when you start from seed you generally get bigger onions. I may try seeds next time.

Nice harvest. Are your onions from sets or seeds?

@LibertyandGraceHomestead

24 күн бұрын

She uses "Starts"

@janew5351

24 күн бұрын

​@@LibertyandGraceHomestead I think Rachel gets them from Dickson onions. In my area, ontario, I know of no place to get those what I call onion starts.

Two years running, this year not as bad, but the onions start rotting in the ground .... got to try something different next year

On some of my onions last year the stems were Thick. Should I have waited longer before harvesting.

How do you tell when they are completely cured? If the leaves are all brown and you cut them off but find moisture in the neck, do you just set it back out to finish?

Are onions all done for this year?😊

Can you cut the green off and still dry them ?

I take my onions and put them in nylons knotted off between each one so they don’t touch and hang them up and they last forever !

Your onions are small. We let ours grow until they are bigger before drying. Did you need to pick them so early?

I am curing my onions outside on the shady side of our house. But our temperatures are getting up in the hundreds. Is it okay to cure them in this extreme heat?

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How many red, yellow onions did you grow? I want to duplicate - also, how many garlic? I didn’t grow near enough

@1870s

23 күн бұрын

I think I planted about 400 onions. didn't do garlic this year, cause we have enough stashed.

@FireflyHomestead

23 күн бұрын

@@1870s Thank you!!

@sixfigurebookkeeper7588

23 күн бұрын

@@1870sI wanted to know this too - thank you for sharing