Harvesting onions early
I usually wait to
harvest our onions until the leaves have dried down. But the summer
abruptly turned wet and I began noticing a few signs of rot. Time to
get our precious bulbs out of the ground before they go bad!
I harvested perhaps
three-quarters of the onions Tuesday, filling up three bushel baskets
and then transferring the contents over onto one of our curing
racks. Maybe I
actually planted too many this year?
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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You can NEVER have too many onions!! I've been cutting the green leaves off, drying them, then grinding them into: "scallion powder!"
If you have too many onions (Inconceivable! Yes this is a Princess Bride reference ::smile::) just do the same. Cut them up, dry them, grind them and voila! instant onion powder!