Thursday, August 23, 2012

onion harvest

Tonight I finished washing all of the remaining onions from my garden.  After taking a bag to some family over the weekend and picking onions all summer from the garden, it was time to pull the rest out.
this was our first time planting onions and we ended planting them too close together so they only grew to a certain point before they got too squished. :)
Aren't they pretty?  They are waiting on my counter for me to cut them up and freeze them- I just need to make sure my eyes can handle it.

3 comments:

Kimberly said...

Very pretty! I have never tried planting onions before, but it looks like you got a bumper crop.

As for your eyes, put a piece of bread in your mouth while you cut the onions. It helps absorb the fumes to keep you from crying.

And We Sailed On said...

Those are beautiful! You can just keep them in a box in your basement in a cool dark place too and they stay good for MONTHS.

Team Boo said...

Absolutely beautiful. If you are cring a lot now it is probably because the onions haven't cured. My husband's great uncle is an onion farmer and they leave the onions out to dry a week or two until they are less potent.