How to Cure Onions

Learn ways to cure your onions in the garden.
Ron Patterson, Utah State University Extension, Carbon County

[nainy]

Originally from Logan, Utah (home of USU), now living in northern Sweden just a few hours from the Arctic Circle. This is a GREAT video, informative and easy to understand. We will follow your instructions this year and see if we can get them dry enough and store them in our root cellar here on the farm. Thanks a million!

[lesliec]

as an EMG and researching everywhere, you provided the best education I found. Thank you.

[MohamedUAE]

Here in my country (UAE) we water vegetables by piping, so when we want to harvest the onion we cut the water supply for about a month, during this period the neck of the onion bends over and it become ready for reaping. But you've done great job explaining well done.

[ruthrutherford]

Thank you! As a backyard (and front yard) onion enthusiast, I have a lot to learn. This really helped!

[supersleuth]

very informative video, nicely done! We really don't appreciate all the work our farmers do to bring us food. Thanks so much.

[theresabenson]

This was wonderful! Thanks for taking the time to put it together.

[axxeman]

Great advice Ron - many thanks from southern UK.

[dyanhogue]

Loving these videos. Lots of great information. Thanks for producing these.

[joek]

You certainly know your stuff and it shows! Thank you from Missouri.

[katrinafarmer]

Great information for a beginner, thanks.

[samuelmckenzie]

Thank you for this video when it comes to onions you have explained everything there is to know.

[swimbait]

A wealth of information. I was disappointed to hear you say Walla Walla Sweets don’t store well since that’s what I’m growing this year. Thanks for the video.

[munchkin]

Wish I could include a picture here of the drying rack I made of PVC pipe and 2”x4” fence wire. We dry garlic and onions on it. When not in use, the legs can be taken off the rack table and all of it stored. To dry garlic or onions, the tops are pushed down through the fence wire rectangles so that the bulbs are suspended by the wire with the tops hanging below. Airflow over the bulbs and underneath through the tops, dries them until the stems have dried clear up to the bulbs. Then they are removed along with any loose skin paper and roots trimmed back some. After that, they are ready for storage, etc.

[frankburns]

32-36 degrees is about refrigerator temp...but I've always heard to not refrigerate onions. I think humidity should be pretty low in a fridge, too.

[mefjoris]

Thanks for the information! Cheers from Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada.

[thomasferkinhoff]

Thank you for this. It was very informative.

[libertychick]

All my onions are putting out scapes. They haven't fallen over, but I guess I should harvest them? I cut some scapes off today and saute'd in some oil, added some fresh tomatoes and lemon juice, but since they were a bit bitter I sprinkled some sugar in. Then tossed with some pasta. It was pretty good....

Note: I first chopped them into little sliver/rounds, then decided to keep the last bits about 1" long. Longer was better - could taste the flavor more.... A bit of S&P, then a sprinkle of dried oregano and it was a quick and easy way to use something that might have been discarded...

[rickmccaskill]

Can I use the refrigerator to store onions? I live in northern Colorado.

[prdeacon]

Can I just put in fridge after curing?

[tomij]

just the information I needed. thank you.