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    i have pulled my main crop onions and they have been drying for 4 days. trouble is they seem to be going soft and will not store can they be frozen
    my plot march 2013http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvzqRS0_hbQ

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    yup .........peel and chop up the decent bits , in a bag and straight in the freezer ......
    S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
    a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

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    • #3
      snap Binley! I've even chopped the thicker green tops to use (much the same as I use leek tops) for soups that will be blitzed, so you don't notice any stringy bits LOL

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      • #4
        Frozen chopped onions can be a brilliant time-saver.
        Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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        • #5
          Originally posted by hawthorns View Post
          i have pulled my main crop onions and they have been drying for 4 days. trouble is they seem to be going soft and will not store can they be frozen
          yes onions freeze wel but I'm more concerned about the state of the onions to start with. Next year (thank goodness there always is one) before lifting your onions, stick your fork into the ground beside them and just lever it back enough to break the roots. Then you can leave the onions to ripen off before lifting.

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          • #6
            It's quite early to be lifting main crop onions and if they still have green bits on then they're not really ready for storing. They're absolutely fine to eat but unless they're properly dried out they will go soft etc.

            Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

            Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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            • #7
              I had to lift mine they had died down
              S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
              a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

              You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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              • #8
                same here, my shakespeares flopped a couple of weeks ago, and 3/4 were no longer at all green yesterday so lifted them. Luckly my ?electrics (red onions), flopped a bit a while back (never did figure out why), then continued growing (they now have a right angle kink in the stem!).

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                • #9
                  Lifted all mine yesterday as they were flopping over and leaves were beginning to go yellow. Also, slugs and snails were starting to chew on the leaves!

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                  • #10
                    mine were under fleece for most of march and april due to the allium leaf miner so I don't know if that made a difference ......
                    S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
                    a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

                    You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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                    • #11
                      mine were attacked by leek moth again so i think this is a reason why they dont store
                      my plot march 2013http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvzqRS0_hbQ

                      hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is a whole lot better

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                      • #12
                        My Red Baron took a real battering from the early winds we had. Most now seem to have recovered but there is still some doubt as to whether we will get our usual crop.

                        Colin
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                        • #13
                          SWMBO has been lifting an onion or two as and when she wants for the past month or so.

                          Due to the winter snow only about half the Red and 3/4 brown servived. I love onions sow planted more sets around May in the poly and greenhouse.
                          Sometimes you just have to scratch that itch and get dirt under your finger nails.

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