Remember back when I planted a million (or so it seemed) onions, and many of you were asking why I planted so many? That’s the exact same thing I’m asking myself now that it’s time to harvest them.
Onions
Yesterday morning I dug up most of two rows. There are 5 more rows and then about a 12′ x 12′ bed left to be dug. Lots of onions!
Onions
Today I sliced up enough to put in the dehydrator but I had some squash that needed to be put up so I have 3 trays of squash and 6 trays of onion.
Dehydrator
I didn’t make much of a dent in the onions on the table so I guess I’m going to have to get the other big dehydrator out and have two of them going. Free electricity during the day so I’ll wait til in the morning to get the other one going. I’ll probably make a batch of French Onion Soup to be canned and I’ll probably still have to chop and freeze some of the onions . . there are a lot of onions out there.
Now . . why did I plant so many? 🙂
katie z. says
Because homegrown are so much better than the dry nasty onions you buy in the store!
Dottie N. says
Looks SO good….A friend of our did something with onions (which, at the time, was NEW to me) I hadn’t seen. He wrapped them in foil with some butter and cooked them on the grill (or in the oven) and it was a wonderful side dish at a picnic. Almost everyone was more enthralled with the onions than they were with grilled meat, LOL. Of course, that wouldn’t be practical for you unless you were planning on cooking them for a major league baseball (just kidding!!) game.
They definitely look YUMMY!
yanicka says
French onion soup….mmmmmmmm. Congrat on the plentiful harvest 😀
Sherrill says
Yeah, what yanicka said. LOTS of french onion soup. Oooooo!!
justquiltin says
Now I’m extremely hungry for French onion soup – need to go see if there’s still some in the freezer! LOL
Maxi says
We were following a big rig truck full of onions. It went around a sharp curve and bunches of onions fell off. We stopped and picked them up. I diced a bunch and put in the freezer in a freezer bag. It was so handy to have these all chopped and ready to cook for months to come.
wanda j says
Judy have you ever done this? I put onions in cut off panty hose legs to dry and store( I’m sure friends have some could give you if you ask for them)( they also work good to tie up tomatoes plants) Yep. Take a leg and drop a onion in the toe first, then tie a knot drop tie, drop tie. Then hang out of the way to dry. I know we will get dry weather sooner or later. Just hang anywhere rain will not get one them for now,. Then once dry hang somewhere else if need to. When ready to use cut off the toe first and work up, I’ve keep onions and garlic this way for over 2 years till I run out or they dry up and I replant. Works like a charm.
No I’ve never seen grubs that big. That must have been some mighty big June bugs to make them that big. Don’t understand why you didn’t feed to chickens? Were you are afraid of them attaching chicken due to size. Just kidding.