When To Harvest Onions & How To Cure Them!

Harvesting and curing onions is easy and quite satisfying to do. Usually we eat through a good portion of these before they get a chance to even cure! This year the onion harvest was decent overall, the heavier than usual rains led to fungal issues like rust and my foolish planting of tall plants in front of these really stunted their overall potential. I am still quite happy with the total harvest especially considering how many we have already grilled up as spring onions.

When curing the goal is to allow the necks and roots to dry back so that many protective papers can form allowing you to store your onions for a long time. Shade and airflow are key to good curing, you don’t want to instantly cure them but slowly without much heat which will spoil the flavor!

[jcking]

Love your videos. All the info I need without any unnecessary “fluff”.

[elvianwana]

The bleeding part is awesome. A great visual that signals that the onion is not fully cured.

[Gardeningchristine]

Those are excellent sized onions 🧅! Don’t let Kevins get you down on yours. I’d be ecstatic to get onions as big as yours!

[brooklynnchick]

Without discouraging you from living your own life, I gotta say that I am really thankful you left grad school and became a gardening educator! You teach me so much, and even though I can’t have a garden right now, I’m taking notes for a year from now when I begin planting! ❤

[lucid_dreams]

Your videos are so educative and relaxing. Always such beautiful scenery. I don't even garden, but I enjoy your videos so very much.

[kyirose]

This brings back happy childhood memories.. whenever I went to my great uncle’s house I’d immediately go to the garden (after receiving permission) and grab an onion (somehow was always massive) which I then took back happily to be washed and peeled by an adult as I couldn’t use a knife (it was a rule.. to be fair I was like 8) and was too short to reach the sink.. every time they asked if I wanted to share with anyone and I’d just happily say no and start eating it like an apple. Now that I’m looking back they probably were asking if I wanted to share because they were always the biggest ones + I wasn’t the only kid that liked the onions as they always taste better fresh.

Also all of us kids would wander into the woods to locate the raspberry and boysenberry bushes.. they didn’t really care because they’re not their bushes and are native to this region. The way we’d tell the difference is one of us would pick a red berry from a bush and eat it if it was sweet the berries of the same bush got put in the raspberry cup if it was sour the opposite.. boysenberries are sweet ripe but we like sour fruit too and it was safe to eat unripe

[EriDoesArt]

Such a good video! My onions are not large enough yet but this is good info for when harvest time comes around

[sharonhoffer]

I just ate my very first home grown onion last night! Pulled it from the garden and chopped it into my dinner 😊

[clynthia]

I love your videos too. I wondered about curing them. Why, for how long, etc. Now, thanks to you! Thanks young sir. ❤😊

[MikkiandAngel]

I braid my long onion necks and then hang them to cure. I also do the same for my garlic

[kesslerchristina]

I love your videos...full of useful
Info and no click bait...

[grantsteynforge]

Perfect video. To the point. Thank you ❤

[elladoz]

Thanks for sharing this yes i want onion's to last for awhile 👍

[sandrae.gardner]

Use the green stalks to make green jerk seasoning

[rachellemazar]

I would love information on bunching onions, I don’t have room for bulb onions and I have heard onions are great companion plants.

[MyCleverHandle]

If you have to harvest early because of weather, "wet" uncured onions make great soup or jam!

[Mr.Anderson__]

Such an informational video!! Thank you!

[TheOnlyKontrol]

I’ve seen someone else recommended flopping the onion necks over by hand when a good chunk of them are already flopped over…then leave it for another week or so before harvesting

[ClaraJC]

I don't grow onions but that's amazing advice

[Ian-bfyk]

I always just hang them from ceiling in my garden shed to dry