Curing Onions

I picked all of our onions last week.  About 60% - 70% were fallen over and we had a small window of dry, sunny weather.  The onions were much bigger this year than last, owing to better growing conditions in the spring.  We had about a dozen or so red onions that bolted, likely due to the late frost we had, so we've been using those ones first.  They are now curing and drying in the barn on a drying rack I built last year out of chicken wire an 1x2.  We'll keep them in with the fan blowing until the necks dry shut, which takes anywhere from a couple of days to a couple of weeks, depending on the size of the neck and how long they were in the ground after falling over.

Onions drying

Now we just need some dry weather to harvest our garlic.  It has rained every day for the last 10 days.  Today I had a little help in the garden picking the beets that were ready, some carrots for our salad, and a few peppers for an evening snack (our new favorite snack is crackers with cream cheese and a slice of jalapeno).

Our corn is approximately 6 feet high and is starting to form tassels.  This is my first year growing corn in the square foot garden and so far I am pleased.