Onion storage: what have you tried?

[humblehillsfarm]

Aren't Foodsavers wonderful ? I hate the single use plastic, but this is one of those things that it's best for. Someday we'll have a way to "deconstruct" plastic and the pollution caused by it won't be such a problem. These are the last of the fresh onions, and probably the biggest. Most of them are in the freezer now. The, smaller, rounder ones are some sort of Bermuda onions, the big flatter ones are, I believe, 'Candy', all from Dixondale Farms.
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Wow those are amazing looking. So i have another question....

I thought that when the tops fell over you should harvest. But now I am reading that you should also wait until the greens turn brown. I didn't do that. When they flopped over I waited a few days and pulled them all. We've been getting a ton of rain though, so maybe I made the right choice I'm not sure. I braided them for a few days and then just cut the tops off and put them in panty hose with knots tied in between them, but when I cut the tops there was a lot of moisture still there. Did I goof up!? I mean, I was still probably going to freeze some, but still.

 

[RoseHawke]

Hard to say, I'm still learning my way with onions as well. I don't know where, but I do recall reading or running across on YouTube something about when "80% flop over, go ahead and harvest" or words to that effect. What I did was give a feel around the neck and if it felt, I dunno, sort of "narrow", I went ahead and pulled them, left them on the ground for a couple days, then moved them over to a curing rack (really just some boards over my compost heap) for a few more days up to a week and more. I had a few that had very thick necks which I think were really trying to bolt. I separated those out to be used first in fresh dishes.

 

[humblehillsfarm]

Hard to say, I'm still learning my way with onions as well. I don't know where, but I do recall reading or running across on YouTube something about when "80% flop over, go ahead and harvest" or words to that effect. What I did was give a feel around the neck and if it felt, I dunno, sort of "narrow", I went ahead and pulled them, left them on the ground for a couple days, then moved them over to a curing rack (really just some boards over my compost heap) for a few more days up to a week and more. I had a few that had very thick necks which I think were really trying to bolt. I separated those out to be used first in fresh dishes.

I wasn't sure if sunlight was bad... I left them on my porch because it's been raining but I did read you could leave them on the ground. It's been so hot and humid. Oh well, you learn my doing!