onion harvest

We started onions from seed in February and we lifted onions this week, a little over seven months total. We are happy with the size of the onions; they seem a little larger than the onions we have planted in past gardens from sets (immature onion bulbs). After half of the tops died back, we bent over all of the onion tops and lifted the bulbs a week later. We have been having dry sunny days, something like 20 days without rain, good onion curing weather. Here is a picture of some onions drying in the hoop house which offers protection from morning dew. Later in the week we will hang the onions in the shed to allow them to finish curing. If we do a good job curing they should store all winter, if not we always have the leeks to harvest.