Using Sweet Onions for the Winter Months

I just started removing my onions from the totes they grew in and I am now beginning to dry them out.  The plants were beginning to fall over and this is the sign that it is time for them to be removed and placed in a hot sunny spot to dry out.

July is the normal time when onions begin to slow in growth and fall over.  The stems no longer stand up straight and this is when I start removing them from the soil.  I just pull them up with my hands and lay them out on a table to dry as quickly as possible.  Once they are dry they are ready to be used.

The amount of onions I picked this season should last through the Winter and hopefully past February and into the month of March.  These onions can last quite awhile as long as you keep them in a dry and cool area.

It was also time to start planting my Fall crop this week as well.  Mid July is the perfect time for planting my broccoli, kale, and cabbage.

Nothing new this season and just the three basic Fall plants.  I will be growing more broccoli plants than last season, and only a few kale and cabbage plants.

Right now I have 18 peat pots that have broccoli seeds with four containers with cabbage seeds and five containers with kale seeds.  I think this is a good amount of the three of them that should bring in a good harvest depending on the weather.

On a side note my corn is starting to produce silks from the stalks which means I could be having corn appearing real soon.  The tassels came about a couple of weeks ago and the first silks of the season formed sometime in the beginning of the week.