Harvested One Tote of Onions and Two More Tomatoes

Today was a warm day and after about a couple of weeks of my onion bulbs falling over I decided that it was time to pick them from the totes.  I only do one tote at first to see if they are ready and are not beginning to rot or become infested with maggots.  Once I inspect them and they seem good to be eaten then I work on the other totes.

I didn’t do all the totes today because some plants were still in the process of falling over.  Picking them too soon is just as bad as picking them too late.  I will most likely get the rest of them tomorrow.  It’s a very simple process and if you do them in totes they come out of the soil incredibly easy without having to use a shovel and dig them out.

Their size was actually pretty good as compared with other years where they were not that big at all.  Most onions that are grown in small gardens don’t usually get as big as you would see in the grocery store, but they are still much more sweeter and delicious than anything that you can buy in these markets.

This was probably the averages size of my onions with some a little smaller and others a tad bigger.  I would like to note that keeping the soil around my onions moist helped them to grow much better than other years.

I did have to throw a few of them out because they had maggots eating through the bulb and others were hollowed out most likely by a fungus or pest.  If I do have ones that are rotting I always try to use these first so that I don’t have chuck too many of them.  Keeping them in a dry place is what I like to do with onion bulbs in order to avoid fungus from growing any further.

Now that I talked about the onions today I also removed two more steakhouse tomatoes that I said I was going to do this week.  These were pretty much the same size as the first one I picked a couple days ago.  They also don’t look to bad either.  Whenever I see a tomato that hasn’t been eaten by caterpillars I always call it a good tomato.

These came from the same plant so this might have something to do with why they ripened at the same time and how they are similar size.

Again I had three more zucchinis that needed to be removed today.  I think they are finally starting to wind down.  At least a couple of plants are no longer beginning to produce fruit.  The others are still growing leaves and tons of fruit, so this may mean there is more to come!