How Do You Know When It Is Time To Harvest Onions?

Onions are a great vegetable to grow and used by many people to add to salads or as toppings to their favorite sandwhich or burger. Regardless of which onion you are growing the harvesting concepts are basically the same. Here is how to harvest the onions you are growing in your garden. Step 1 jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery('#jsArticleStep1 span.image a:first').attr('href','http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/5282449/onionseeds_Full.jpg'); }); I love onions. They add so much flavor to a lot of dishes that can be cooked. Just look at any cooking show and invariably they will use onions to "sweeten" it up and add flavor it. The first step is to plant your onion seeds after fear of frost. Frost can wipe them out. Step 2 When the top part of the onion, the green stem protruding from the soil starts to fall over, your onions are about 2 inches in diameter. Cut about one inch off from the top. Doing this will allow continual healthy growth. Step 3 The final step is to ...  more