How to Harvest Onions for Long Term Storage

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

4.9 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Learn how to harvest onions at the right time for best long term storage, what to do if onions have bolted (flowered), and best type of onions for winter storage on the pantry shelf. For video and full blog post show notes go to https://melissaknorris.com/193 Make sure you get registered for the FREE upcoming Organic Gardening Workshop now for extra special early bird perks, click here to get on the list

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	If you want to learn how to use herbs medicinally and not only medicinally but also grow them,
0:06.4	I can think of little else that gets me excited as knowing I can literally grow our medicine right outside our back door, then you, my friend, are going to want to make
0:16.2	sure that you are registered and signed up for our herbal summer series. This is completely free, though you definitely could charge for it because it is
0:28.2	packed with information. Once you sign up starting in August, every week you are going to get an email from me going over my top 10 favorite herbs.
0:40.0	Each week we are going to pick one of those herbs and do a deep dive on how to grow that herb,
0:47.8	but more importantly, how to use it, including safety, and if you should use it or not if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.
0:56.9	We go through all of the cautions, the medicinal properties, and its uses.
1:02.1	So when you get done done you will have in your pocket and hopefully by
1:06.2	that point in your medicine cabinet my favorite top 10 herbs to always have at the ready. Go to Melissa K Norris.com forward slash
1:18.2	summer herb and make sure that you get registered. Summer school is in session and it has never been better.
1:25.2	Welcome to episode number 193. This is another one of our quick tip episodes and if you have a question and would like to have an answered please shoot it to me. You can email, make sure that you put in the subject line.
1:45.3	Ask Melissa for the podcast. And I hope to be able to get your question answered and featured.
1:52.7	But for today, we are talking about how to harvest your onions.
1:57.2	So, you know, the proper time to harvest your onions
2:00.5	and the proper steps that will ensure you're going to be able to store those
2:05.6	onions for your long-term food storage in the pantry. Sometimes it seems there is a
2:11.2	lot of talk about planting and getting great growth out of our plants,
2:16.7	which is all very important and I love talking about that stuff.
2:20.0	But if you're newer to growing things or you haven't always done it from a preserving
2:24.7	standpoint so that you do have that food for year-long eating,
2:28.1	you might not actually know when is the best time
2:31.3	to harvest that food. And that's one of the charts that I actually
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Melissa K Norris, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Melissa K Norris and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.