How to Make a String of Onions, Braiding Onions for Storage

Today I get my onions ready for storing by making a string of onions. Stringing onions is very simple once you know how. A simple braid of onions not only looks attractive, but means you can store onions easily. Click SHOW MORE for more details, resources and info.
#onions #stringing #braiding

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I share our organic homestead, called Byther Farm, with my loving partner, Mr J and our two cats.
We are a fifty-something couple who live on a smallholding in Monmouthshire, Wales. We are going green and creating a gentler, cleaner and more healthy life for our family.
We keep hybrid chickens and also have breeding flocks of Cream Legbar, Jersey Giant, Light Sussex and Australorp chickens and Aylesbury ducks and have an organic kitchen garden with no dig gardening raised beds and young food forest in which to grown our fruit and vegetables.
I'm currently exploring permaculture farming as a way of life.

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[helene]

Thank you for a very nice video 😍
Best Regards Helene in Sweden

[KamaileXo]

I'm in the US, and I call it baling twine, but just in your honor, I'm going to start calling it hay string. <3 I love your channel, and you and your husband make me smile every day. Thank you!!

[inharmonywithearth]

A great use for the used square bale strings ! Thanks

[ShushLorraine]

Yes, we most definitely call that string, "baling twine." 🙂👍 At least, in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas we do. I love this video instruction!! Very helpful.

[thisorthat]

So simple. yet many of us had no idea how to do this. Thank you for keeping these skills alive and sharing with others. Blessings!

[denisewilson]

Yep in my part of the USA in Michigan we call it baling twine. Thank you for showing me how to "tie" onions and maybeI can do garlic too. I have seen them hanging in peoples pantry but nobody has shown how to do it. I am newly subscribed, and love your channel. I love you & Mr J's personality & humor.

[dianecharles]

Thanks Liz, I saved it to my favorites so I can rewatch again!

[Leslie_AvalonAcresFarm]

I just got a crate of onions from my Amish neighbor and I needed to learn how to do this--she's got rows and rows of braided onions drying on her porch, just beautiful! Thanks for the tutorial, I'm off to braid my onions! ~~Leslie

[dragonflyneb]

So interesting and at such a right time as I am about to pick my onions. I have just put them in a basket so now that I know how to string them this is what I will do. Thank you Have a wonderful day!

[ITSJUNE]

Thank you for sharing, Liz.

much love🙂💓👍

[stumplifter]

Not sure what those other yanks call it, but in Wisconsin we call it bailing twine too! 😊

[rvmush]

In America we do actually call it baling twine🥰 When I was a young mother I would buy a big bag of onions at the market and I would fill old nylons with them tying a not between each. Then I hung them and cut off one at a time. They lasted much longer than just in the bag. BTW onions were about 10 cents a pound back in the 1980s😳

[jackiefletcher]

binder twine in Southern Ontario Canada 🙂

[pamt]

Bailing twine....this is an awesome tip

[freakygeaktwo]

I think in Canada we too call it bailing twine or butchers string :) oh neat your top has eye's ;) thanks for sharing

[lizahalaska]

It is baling twine here in the US too 😄

[McCreaFamilyHomestead]

Its baling twine here too. And thank you for doing this video cause i have always wondered how people hand there onions like this.

[luannschomel]

Stickey Ends ! I Love it ! Thanks for teaching that. Ja it done that was with Garlic, too ?? Have you written a book with all this stuff in it ??

[dollyperry]

Just lovely! I want to do this, this year. Can you do this with Shallots? This is my first year storing them.

[ThePlantBasedHomestead]

Absolutely lovely! I have missed you. It's been very busy over here with the warm weather (though we've gotten a ton of rain in between). I haven't been able to record any videos because my computer memory is full so I'm hoping to have it taken care of by fall. ((sigh)) Lots happening over here, but boy do I love watching your videos.