How Do You Harvest & Store Onions?
“Hi, this is Yolanda Vanveen and I’m here to talk about how to harvest and store onions. Now I love onions in all of the dishes. It doesn’t matter if you’re cooking Chinese food, American food or making a nice stew, it’s great to have onions in it. And they’re a easy plant to grow in your garden as well, because they don’t ask for a whole lot. They just want a full sunny spot with some water and room to grow. I found that onions are pretty easy to tell when they’re ready to dig up and so what I found if you just let ’em grow through the summer, by late summer, they’ll actually start turning a bit yellow. The foliage will start turning a bit yellow, even with watering, it will just get to the end of it’s cycle. And at the point where the leaves are just barely turning yellow, then I’ll just dig up a few of them and see if they look firm and if they look like they’re ready to grow. Sometimes you, I might just throw ’em back in the ground for another couple weeks ’cause they’ll continue t
