Food Item: Onions

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Successful cold storage
http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/gist82.html

By Sylvia Gist

(SNIP) ... Planting time and harvest time also affect the success of storage. Many storage vegetables are planted later and harvested after frost. In the following discussion, I will note what works best for me as I deal with a fairly short growing season and cool nights.

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Onions

Perhaps my favorite vegetable in storage is the onion. The sweet ones have to be eaten in the summer and early fall, but the pungent ones can last until you have the next crop. A couple of long-day hybrids, Copra and Norstar, have worked well for me. I start the seed indoors in February, feed them fish fertilizer, and set tiny plants out in early May. Norstar matures sooner than Copra, but both are narrow necked hard onions of medium size. In August, I quit watering them. ---CONTINUED---
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How to Harvest, Cure and Store Onions – Root Cellaring, Braiding, Dehydrating and Freezing
https://commonsensehome.com/how-to-store-onions/

Post a reply How-to-store-onions1 You can enjoy home grown onions for months after the growing season has finished with just a little extra time and effort. In this post we'll cover onion harvest, curing onions, and several different onion storage methods. ---CONTINUED---

Includes:
Which Onions are Best for Storage?
How to Harvest Onions
How to Cure Onions
How to Store Onions
What not to do?
What to store Onions In?
Using Stored Onions
How to Dehydrate Onions
To make onion powder
How to Freeze Onions
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