Storing Home Grown Onions

http://www.survivalistboards.com/ Growing onions at home can be an easy and satisfying project. Onions are easy to grow, tolerant of soil conditions and just about the whole thing is edible.

But once the onions are harvested, what now?

For about 3 - 4 months after the onions are harvested, my wife and I store them in a mesh plastic bag.

In November we will usually slice them up, put them into a plastic bag and store in the freezer.

In December I will plant some more onion sprouts and get ready for next year.

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[CombatWarrior420]

1:16 now do replant the whole onion or do you cut the stem off and plant that

[survivalistboards]

CombatWarrior420 - replant the whole onion, just like it is.

Also,,, I have cut the top off an onion, thrown it in the garden as compost and it started to root.

[mrzack888]

wonderful, makes me want to cry

[mkmason2002]

Never use a plastic cutting board as they hold bacteria.

The dark lines on the board have bacteria in them. Wooden boards dry out better because they are porous. Google it, you'll see I'm right. I studied this in nursing school years ago.

[haluakhan]

oh that was painful~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[badgirl44654]

If you want diced onions you can purchase a handy onion chopper at the hardware store for around $15, would make freezing onions so much easier. After diced lay on layers of wax paper on a cookie sheet in the freezer and after frozen solid transfer to the freezer bag(s). No breaking apart onions, and can be added frozen when cooking just about anything.

[bd1rn]

After you chop them place them on a cookie sheet and freeze then put in bags they will not be stuck together as bad or a all. Just a suggestion. Thanks for the videos.

[1fanger]

Try keeping all your onion trimmings, carrot tops, just about everything that isn`t spoiled and freeze it. when you`ve accumulated alot, make vegetable stock.

[rosuabsc]

Hi, I take my onions by the greens and take a big bunch and tie a string around them and hang them in my basement for the winter, when I want an onion we just remove one from the bunch. They store beautifully this way. Of course our basement isn't heated, more like a cold storage.

[TheChocolateBanana]

Interesting how you don't have any videos of your own demonstrating you being a douche bag, yet you are. might wanna get on that, "wehugtrees"

That's a cute name, btw

[WeHugTrees2]

interesting that you have no vids of your own demonstrating knife techniques. Nothing unsafe at all about the way the knife is used in this vid.

[spiderpig85]

onions are one of the hardier edible plants and will grown in just about any condition you can imagine, and some you won't.

i remember storing onions in our basement in a cardboard box when i was a kid and they sprouted through the bottom of the box and started to grow in the small amount of dirt on our basement floor. They are quite amazing sometimes.

[TheChocolateBanana]

Those are horrible knife techniques... unsafe and inefficient. There's a much safer/efficient way to dice/slice/Julianne an onion.

You're liable to cut yourself very easily cutting like that