You MUST Do This! Improved Superior Onion Drying Rack Build!

[@jarnold8803]

Great idea, now to get onions to grow in this black concrete Texas soil

[@Firevine]

This is about all those Craftsman sawhorses are good for. Mine are just taking up space. 😂 I blew my plastic ones up with tannerite 😬 I'll have to do this, because my garlic is past harvesting time it seems.

[@CountryLivingExperience]

lol. Tannerite is fun.

[@sc2618]

Nice Rack! 😂 I Love it!!! 💃💃Thank you for sharing your successes and failures to help others learn so many things we never knew we needed to know. 🙏🏻✝️God Bless!

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Thank you. I am happy to share.

[@judyanderson8782]

Put the slat form on a pully system so that you can raise it to the ceiling out of your way while they cure.

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Love it. Good idea 👍

[@FarmsVilla]

Perfect timing! We are just about to pull our onions so I will be stealing this idea. 👍🏻😊

[@CountryLivingExperience]

You’re welcome

[@draperone371]

We did this for our onions and it works brilliantly Thank you

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Awesome! You’re welcome

[@rickthelian2215]

Like this style of drying rack, get job in putting together.😊

[@juliebarnett9812]

Nice! Your onions are so big!

[@katiebradford9751]

Are those Texas Legends from Dixondale Farms? They sure look like mine and that variety does not disappoint. Great idea and can be used for lots of other things too. Might get around that next onion season, it’s chicken wire again for me this year. 😂

[@CountryLivingExperience]

They are yellow Granex or Noonday onions from Noonday, TX. Probably in the same lineage.

[@easttexascowboy257]

@@CountryLivingExperience I was just looking on the Dixondale site a couple days ago and saw they carry the yellow Granex. Definitely going to be ordering some of those this year instead of the Texas Sweet I got from them last year! Those are good looking onions and supposedly sweeter.

[@Kelly_Mae_C]

Great idea for a curing rack. 👍

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Thank you

[@PETERWAPI-xu9bq]

Brilliant thanks ..

[@CountryLivingExperience]

You're welcome!

[@easttexascowboy257]

Nice job! I was lazier with mine. I had one of the long pallets from solar panel shipment. I just set it on top of two empty cattle mineral tubs and I had an instant onion drying rack. It works pretty much like yours except I didn't have to build anything. I know you have some of those long pallets lying around from your solar projects. Now you know what you can use them for! 😉

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Thanks. I certainly have a lot of pallets lying around right now.

[@Doc1855]

We have metal shelving units in our garage. This is where we dry our onions. For some reason we can’t Hard Neck Garlic in our area and Soft Neck won’t last in the ground over our long cold snowy winters. We also store our potatoes on a shelf in the garage. Even when our temperatures drop to below zero in the winter, our insulated garage never gets below 40 degrees.

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Nice to have an insulated garage for sure.

[@patriciaschneider6058]

Awesome video!! Thank you, thank you,Thank you!! 🤗

[@CountryLivingExperience]

You're welcome

[@patriciaschneider6058]

I've been doing it all wrong! 😯 Now I know. 🤗

[@GaryParvis1776]

Good job

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Thank you

[@bonniehiggins8811]

Love this 😀 Thank you 😊

[@CountryLivingExperience]

You’re welcome

[@DebbieAndrews3435]

Thanks great info.

[@CountryLivingExperience]

You're welcome

[@tippyfuller8922]

Good afternoon, praying all is well. How many days to dry the onion and garlic?

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Thank you and good afternoon. Drying time depends on your climate (humidity) and where you have them stored. Cure them in a covered area with good airflow.

[@abidmalhi]

This practice is economical for kitchen garden only. Bulk quantity for more than an Acre will be not feasible. What will be a feasible methodology for for drying bulk quantity ? Please describe

[@CountryLivingExperience]

I am a gardener not a farmer. Hence, I do not cure onions in bulk.

[@tokencivilian8507]

Super simple. Great rack. Question - besides planting the onions high and digging out around them, what would you recommend to get big bulbs to grow? We get nice green tops...and negligible bulbs. I know we're doing something wrong.....

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Thank you. I would just increase the nitrogen and organic material in the soil. Check the variety as well. Some have much smaller bulbs.

[@keithdr_baldy5250]

how long do you cure for typically

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Honestly depends on the weather and the airflow. Average around 3 weeks.

[@wilsonshanty]

Wanted recommendations regarding my chicken enclosure we are putting up. It is much like yours. Should I trench the perimeter a bit? It isn’t level enough. Trying to make as secure as possible to protect chickens when I get them.

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Trenching is not necessary. Will you put up an electric fence too?

[@wilsonshanty]

@@CountryLivingExperience I can if solar operated. No electric out there. I’m in western Maryland. I have a lot to learn.

[@CountryLivingExperience]

I have solar on our fences. No power near them on our rural property ether.

[@wilsonshanty]

I will research solar options for electrified fence. I’m in suburban area but we get fox, skunk, deer, coyotes and an occasional bear. So any advice is appreciated. Thanks for info onions also. Have several sets in now. Love your videos! God Bless!

[@CountryLivingExperience]

@@wilsonshanty This is the one we have used for a few years.....amzn.to/41XXOMr. The Gallagher S20. You can see it in some of our videos. It has worked flawlessly and the battery is still strong. We did get a new one for a bigger fence (the S40) and just installed it on the new coop fencing. Coincidentally a video showing that will be out this week (thursday or sunday).