The Best Onions for Long Storage!

Discover the ultimate guide to onion storage! Learn which onion types are the best for long-term storage and which ones you should enjoy first. Join us in ranking the top four onion varieties based on their storage potential and flavor profiles. Don't miss out on this insightful video and make sure to subscribe for more gardening tips!
CHAPTERS:
0:00: 🧅 Ranking onion types based on storage ability, with updates on garlic and end of season crops.
2:59: 🧅 Factors affecting onion storage quality highlighted in various onion varieties despite size underperformance.
5:07: 🧅 Factors affecting onion storage potential and tips for preservation.
7:25: 🌱 Optimistic outlook on upcoming garlic harvest and management of elephant garlic plants.
10:02: 🌱 Garlic varieties and their growth stages explained in a garden setting.
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[@Emma-3010]

Scape harvest tip: rather than cut the scapes, grip it right where it comes up out of the leaves and pull straight up, slow and steady. It almost feels like it's stretching - then it will snap and come out. The portion of the scape that was down inside the plant is AMAZINGLY tender and delicious. Looking forward to making another batch of scape butter this year!

[@PlantObsessed]

My hard neck is still going strong even though the squirrels are always messing with them. Fingers crossed we get a good harvest.❤

[@brianjones1679]

Pulled my garlic today in Fayetteville, NC.

[@wasntme3651]

Amateur gardener here and have been enjoying your videos. Subbed and Thanks 🙏🏼

[@sgturn1500]

Pulled my onions, that i purchased from Hoss, a few days ago. Really happy with the harvest, mine are much larger. Volusia county Florida

[@Sssanbo]

My onions are great . One thing that baffles me are why my whites have such a thick stem .

[@79PoisonBreaker]

Wonder if a underground pest is responsible for spotty garlic row?

[@gregbluefinstudios4658]

Shows us, how different our Growing Seasons are! My Onion went outside Mid April!

[@williammikell2210]

My chianti did much better than the timon. I will be trying your pickled red onion recipe soon. I grow Thia Purple Garlic and elephant garlic, both are doing pretty good this year. Here is a tip: In the winter when the garlic leaves are lush and green you can pick them and cut them up to put in stir dishes. They have a nice spicy flavor. You still make excellent videos.

[@mikemccleery7253]

My hard neck garlic here in central Nebraska is looking very good survived a 8 degree night and a 13 degree night in February and it’s looking very good now in may. About 3 ft tall and very thick stems.

[@Emma-3010]

Also in central Nebraska, hardneck (music and german extra hardy) look real good this year! I think I planted too deep last year, the heads stayed kinda smallish. Hope this year is better!

[@ncanellos]

Great video and information 👍 Up here in Central Pennsylvania 17740 near Penn State our Garlic is still going no scapes yet but soon am sure .

[@BlushingRoseDiaries]

I pulled Early white Grano and Red Grano. I’m interested in finding a short day onion with a better storage life. Many short days have very short storage life

[@doityourselflivinggardenin7986]

I lived in and around Glenville Ga. for two years (about 40 years ago) and got spoiled with Vidalia sweet onions. Yum! I'm back up in the northeast now and they must be using roundup on them because they now make me gag, just like GMO potatoes. I created my own variety of long storing onions. I saw a trend coming where the major seed companies were buying up all the Copra seeds so they could discontinue them to force people to buy other onion plants. I took the three best storing onion varieties and crossbred them to create a variety that grows well here. I harvest in the fall and they last into spring. The smallest seedlings are planted in a special bed for scallions and green onions. My variety is long-day. I only use chicken manure for fertilizer. Works wonderfully. BTW, no sweet onion will store well. Too much sugar I guess and not enough skin. Your garlic skips look like herbicide contamination. Always good to see your progress!

[@saltyhillbillyfarm]

This Kansas boy's hardneck garlic is looking great just started putting out scapes this week. It was planted mid september.

[@OurNationalAdventure]

Same here in north Georgia - scapes on garlic this week :)

[@shirleyk623]

My onions failed miserably. I planteid them in between my kale plants. The kale shaded out the onions and they died. Next year I will have a plot dedicated just for onions. Trial and error. That's how we learn. Great video. I'm glad you had a good harvest. I have to say that I am very impressed with the agro thrive fertilizers. I will use it from now on. I've had the best carrot crop ever, I do believe it is because of the agro thrive. Thanks for sharing.

[@not1moreinch332]

I grew my garlic this year in garden fabric and I believe I am going to get my best year yet. I think I got about 3 or 4 weeks til harvest but my plants are huge.

[@TMesser74]

I grew some monsters thanks to your tips. I haven’t pulled them all yet nor weighed them but I’ve measured one of the biggest and it was six inches wide and 17 inches around. I’m waiting til they all fall to see how big they can get. I also grew the same varieties you grew last year.

[@TMesser74]

And I haven’t had any go to seed

[@tinapayne2367]

In my upstate NY backyard garden, my garlic is doing great. This year, I planted red bunching onions I'll use through the season. Some small white globe onions which freeze well and I use in soups and stews in the winter and some red onions for fresh eating and chop and slice and freeze for winter use. Here I'm just happy my seed starts are standing upright 😂 We got a ways before harvesting.

[@glenbrooks2917]

Garlic still going good. My elephant looks like yours. Tall full leaves. Mine started scaping a couple weeks ago. My chesnok red started scaping mid April. Mt music is also doing good and shaped. I had a few of my music garlic scape more than once. 2-3 times. Not sure what's up with that. Softneck I'm confused about. Had some plants start shooting clove looking things out the side.of the stalk about 2-3 inches up from the soil. So not sure how those will turn out. All in all I think I'll be happy but the plants don't look like I planted as many cloves as I did lol. I'll need more next season. This video is what I needed to see. Let's me know my garlic are doing about the same and are close to harvest time. Thank you.

[@davidadams5670]

It is interesting I had a good onion year last year and not so good this year just like you did. Everything pretty much the same.

[@crystals14acregarden61]

Ok, so, beginners luck is s thing. My first year, I grew garlic from the grocery store. It did fine. 2nd year, I replanted some of those, and they did great, some heads were as big as my fist. 3rd year, huge harvest. Cured, braided, hung all through the house(mobile home). Mid summer, power was out for 3 days. Garlic must have tried to bake, because they started going bad. Took me 3 weeks after work to peel them all, and freeze or dehydrate them. 4th year, bought a few from store, they look pathetic. Got a few Elephant garlic from the store. Didn't know to keep them in the fridge before planting. They look dead already. Can't win them all, but yours look great!

[@cherylbertolini3140]

I have 180 garlic and 540 onions growing and both are doing well.

[@jillcaponi8995]

I’m growing 2 kinds of garlic… the hard neck called music looks great. No scapes yet. The soft neck called susanville looks a little rough but most of the stalks are nice and thick. I’m also growing elephant garlic. The stalks are big and thick but I don’t like the color They’ve been kind of pale since they broke ground in November. I’ve fed them with ammonium nitrate I guess we’ll see how they did soon. Last year I lost all my garlic and onions to some kind of maggots. Never had that happen before. 🤷‍♀️

[@lisanowakow3688]

Nematodes - A particularly insidious garlic bug is the nematode (Ditylenchus dipsaci), which lives and reproduces inside garlic plants. These microscopic worm-like pests eat all parts of the stems, leaves, and bulbs. It can live without water and survive for many years in the soil.

[@MynewTennesseeHome]

I grow hard neck garlic and it just started sending up scapes last week. I also grew 2 typed yellow sweet onions, one red and one white. They're just starting to bulb here so I have 3-5 weeks before harvest.

[@rickthelian2215]

Still some nice harvest ofOnions😁🧅

[@Ladyscharm]

I'm new at both garlic and onions. Planted both in January. Onions were from sprouted ones forgotten in the pantry and garlic was late because of how warm it was last year's October -December time frame. Don't know when to harvest though. I'm thinking next month

[@hardstylzz5024]

I pulled mine on Saturday, but today had to put them in shed because it rained all day today massive soaker, glad i hilled my corn on Saturday too at 4ft tall.

[@jmac3163]

I’ve always grown the Texas grano onion because they always do well. I need to try some different varieties this fall. I pulled onions two weekends ago and elephant garlic this past Saturday. I don’t have any special place to store them, they usually do ok on a shelf in my greenhouse.

[@johnbarrett4274]

My soft neck looks absolutely amazing. My hard neck planted right beside it look like the middle of your one row absolutely pathetic. I have no idea what’s going on.

[@UrbanWhiteBuffaloFarm]

Hey Travis, I am just gettin all my Dixondale onion starts planted this past week about 275 for 2 people.. My 100 garlics look so good. Here you are holding all yours up and collecting the harvest already. lol ?? Do you plant the softneck garlic in the fall and have it overwinter? It is amazing how everything can be so different in different parts of the country. I hope Brooklyn had a nice mother's day!! God bless y'all stay safe Cya next thyme

[@waynespringer501]

You've had a lot of rain this year. The differences to me looks like a drainage issue

[@WhatWeDoChannel]

I enjoyed this! I grow Spanish Roja too, it’s wonderful garlic! It’s really odd how some sections of the Spanish Roja bed went through a decline, I hope it’s not the dreaded garlic nematode!

[@lisafahrner8257]

Great video.Im in SW Florida and I’m trying to grow garlic for the first time. Mine must be bad because they’re not thick like yours. The garlic still has green leaves. I think July will be a year I’ve had them growing.I could be wrong on the timeline.

[@user-vl5bj6of2s]

Great looking onions!!❤❤

[@Maria-ql3fc]

No monster onions for me this year, but not unhappy with the harvest either. If the good Lord wills I have another season I'll not be planting so many this fall. We won't be able to use all I grew before they go bad. Red/purple onions don't freeze well but the yellow and white ones do. Has anyone dehydrated the red onions and had good success?

[@gardeningmark]

Can you give an update on your Egyptian walking onions please? I ordered some from ya and they have gotten so big and multiplied 10 times over. I love them and they are very tasty onions!

[@LazyDogFarm]

Yeah I'll try to do that soon.

[@terryl.9302]

Thx. Had not considered Shape as to Storage capacity. I buy according to taste & storage. The short-intermediate & long day thing is of little value to me, esp w/ a hoop house setup. Then they changed the Grow Zones, sigh. Like other things, they turn what's real simple abt Onions into a complicated mess. -- 💌🍒

[@jeffengland1862]

Jeff from East Tennessee. It’s a lot cooler weather here. We have had a cool damp May so far!! My short day onions are still growing. Do I wait until all the green tops fall over before I pull them??? Want to fill this little spot with tomatoes.

[@LazyDogFarm]

I usually wait until at least 3/4 of them have fallen before I'll harvest an entire row.

[@matthewking2209]

I grew the same onions and they did great using the blood meal. Do you think a leak or a clog in the drip tape? Maybe take a soil sample from the good and bad area and have it tested.

[@LazyDogFarm]

Drip tape was working well the whole time.

[@matthewking2209]

@@LazyDogFarm Those spots with the garlic are weird, I did see some cool mushrooms growing with the elephant garlic.

[@haroldblake1196]

Growing garlic but as usual it's not very big. I put it in a pot with the tomatoes, think I need to puT in ground to get better bulbs ?

[@alishasimmons1990]

What are you going to replace were the onions are?

[@LazyDogFarm]

Cover crop

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[@drbecktex]

Does the different garlic bulbs taste different?

[@LazyDogFarm]

Yes. The hardneck garlic tends to have a more pungent flavor, while the elephant garlic is the most mild of the three.

[@lukedawg357SIG]

I have some store bought yellow onions came up in a compost pile they have gone to seed can they still be eaten?

[@LazyDogFarm]

I don't see why not.

[@andrewlittlefield3425]

My corn almost blew down today 😅

[@drbecktex]

Why do the round onions keep longer?

[@LazyDogFarm]

No idea. They just do.

[@nolawarren3560]

Always a week behind. Dang

[@joelhenderson5404]

Looks like you had a lot of water. Onions don't get big when it rains to much. Onions and garlic do better up on a bed when it rains to much. To much will stunt them.