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how to cure and store onions for *months*
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Yesterday I wrote about the 3 signs your onions may be ready to harvest. If all of those point to yes for you—hooray! Let's get to work. You can absolutely keep onions in your pantry or on the counter to eat within the next couple weeks, but homegrown onions can store for much, much longer than that... think months! Some varieties can even go a whole year without spoiling, but they need a simple extra step right after they come out of the ground: curing. Curing is just one part of the equation however. To maximize how long your onions can keep, it's also important to know how and where to store them (and what to do if they start sprouting). So if you want your onions to last all winter and into the following spring... You'll find my 7 tried-and-true tips in that post. Tip #7 is a little bonus that most people don't realize they can do! Seasonal tipsLast call for Egyptian walking onionsEgyptian walking onions are one of my staple crops and a year-round favorite. They're also easy to grow, resistant to pests and diseases, and hardy to zone 3! Plant these in your garden for an endless supply of scallions (or dig up their shallot-like bulbs). I have a limited supply of organic seeds (which are actually bulbils, seen below) ready to plant now and available for shipping throughout the USA. The bulbils are harvested from my garden in Bend, Oregon. Summer-planted bulbils will give you green onions in fall, while fall-planted bulbils will establish roots and start growing in late winter/early spring.
​Read my growing guide here. (They're super easy to grow in USDA zones 3–10 and come back every year!) P.S. Find out how to harvest, cure, and store your onion crop so it lasts for months. P.P.S. Learn how to store all your vegetables properly (whether they're homegrown or store-bought) with my Fruit & Vegetable Storage Guide—includes printable charts you can keep in your kitchen for reference! |
Garden Betty
For people who want to grow more food with less work. 🌱 This is my weekly newsletter loved by 38,000+ subscribers—here's what one of them had to say: "These are not the regular run-of-the-mill garden-based emails. You actually touch on more unusual tidbits that encourage me to keep growing and learning."