One of the benefits of growing your own fruit and vegetables is having a steady flow of home-grown crops to enjoy throughout fall and winter. Aside from pickling, preserving or freezing a bumper ...

Knowing when and how to harvest onions helps you get the best flavor and longer storage life. Onions are ready to harvest when their green tops turn yellow and naturally fall over at the neck. Let ...

To store onions successfully, they first need to be cured properly. At harvest time, carefully dig your onions up and lay the bulbs on the soil surface or on a wire rack. If the weather is wet, dry ...

Knowing when your onions are ready for harvest and how to prepare them for storage are important steps toward having a successful crop. A common practice passed down among generations of gardeners is ...

Curious if it's time to harvest your onions but afraid to pull them too early? Our expert dishes on the easiest ways to tell ...

Although many Americans understand the pleasure of growing their own tomatoes and fresh vegetables, many never think to grow and cure their own garlic, shallots and onions. First-time growers will ...

Onions are a fun and reliable crop to grow in the winter vegetable garden. Onions can be planted from seed, sets (tiny immature bulbs) or transplants. The method gardeners choose depends on the time ...

The onion family is one of the world’s most popular crops, despite making us cry and tainting our breath. As with the bitterness in herbs I mentioned a few weeks ago, the plant’s defensive chemicals, ...

Farmers in Orange County’s Black Dirt region, pummeled by losses due to poor growing conditions last year, are harvesting a far, far better crop of their signature yellow storage onions this year.

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