Sorting onions for storage
Huckleberry informed me that
it was high time I sorted through our onions, cut off the stems, and
put them away.
I'm sad to say that our
beautiful onion
braids all started breaking apart after hanging for just a few
days. I guess those folks on the internet who recommend you braid
a piece of rope in amid the leaves were right.
After several braids
fell to the ground, I ended up drying the onions on the anti-cat screen
atop the chick brooder. Our last set of chicks is due to hatch
this week, so I guess Huckleberry was right.
A considerable number of
onions were already slightly softened, presumably due to bruising from
their unexpected fall. Rather than sorting by size the way I
usually do, I instead used a squeeze test to pull out all of the onions
that need to be eaten in the next month. The
hard-as-a-storage-pear onions go in other bags to be used later.
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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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