What to do with onions?

johnlobb · Aug 8, 2015

I planted some yellow Texas sweet onions this spring and since I never did that before I need some advise on how to deal with them. I have pulled a few and have them laying in the sun. Is that a good idea? Some of the stalks have laid down. What to do next?

JOCCO · Aug 8, 2015

Cut them up and put them on steaks and potatoes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hd6gtom · Aug 8, 2015

John around here most folks pull them, wash them off, let them dry good and store them by hanging them up in old mesh potato sacks in a dry place. do not let the bags touch one another or tough anything else. If you have excess there are farmers markets where they sell well.

johnlobb · Aug 8, 2015

Let them dry in the sun? Or in a shaded area? For how long?

SweetFeet · Aug 8, 2015

We pull them, and rub off the dirt clumps. Then dry our them on an old window screen without washing them.

Once they have some good dry skin layers, I put gloves on and just rub off the outer skin along with any remaining dirt.

Friends of ours always chop up a bunch of their onions and freeze them raw. I'm not sure if they vacuum pack them or not.

old · Aug 8, 2015

I was always told to hang them in a gunny sack or other such thing so they could breath and do so in a place where it is cool and sort of dark. I have tried that here where I live but it stays to humid most of the time for them to stay good. This year I am drying them and going to grind them up to make onion powder. Have some in the oven right now and will grind them in a little bit

Nebraska Cowman · Aug 8, 2015

It depends how hot your sun is. i had a friend here in Nebraska that cooked his. that was the end of those. Whatever it takes to get them dry nicely, then store in cool dry.

pete 23 · Aug 8, 2015

I pulled mine last year and put them on a slatted rack in the shed for a few weeks. Then brought all the good ones in side and layed them on a newspaper on the basement floor. Had to sort them every now and then to throw some not keeping, but we still have a few from last year that are solid. I have a lot more this year and been pulling some, thinning them out as some are huge. Giving them away as I don't expect them to keep yet but soon will. The regular old yellow onions keep very well. Big Daddy and Walla Walla don't keep all that well.

Leroy · Aug 8, 2015

Amish friend raises commercially. He puts them in what you would think of a haymow but it is top floor of his produce prossing building, solid plywood floor and about I think 3 onions deep for a few tons of them. Not sure if he washes them or not but this spring he had a fire and lost all his equipment and building. In a week the new one was back up. I know by law there is some kinds of produce that he has to wash but I do not know if the Onions are included in that. but DO NOT put in sun. He raises the candy onion in northern Indiana.

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