Harvesting and Curing Onions – Farm Fresh Tuesday (#10)

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This week in our Farm Fresh Tuesday Blog Hop, our featured post is all about harvesting and curing onions! Scroll down to find out more!

Growing Onions

How often do you buy onions at the store? I know that before I started growing my own, I bought them almost weekly! Onions are just one of those vegetables that a lot of people don’t think about growing.

If people do decide to grow onions, they just stick a few in and eat them fresh! I do that with sweet onions, but I personally like to grow enough onions to keep our household in home grown onions for most of the year. How do I do that?

First, I grow onion by seed, rather than by sets. I go into more detail about why in this article about How to Plant Onion Seed.

In this article I explain exactly How to Plant Onion Seedlings.

Choosing the Right Onion Varieties for Long Term Storage

If you are also interested in growing the majority of onions that your family uses, it is super important to choose the right variety. Sweet onions have a lot of sugar, and don’t keep well. You need to choose an onion variety that is known for being a long keeping onion or storage onion. These are the ones that store the best.

I go into much more detail in this article about How to Store Onions from the Garden Through the Winter.

In order to store onions properly, first they must be harvested and cured properly. That is why I chose my featured post this week, since I haven’t really covered that on my blog yet in fine detail.

Our Featured Posts This Week: Harvesting and Curing Onions

When I saw that Kathi from Oak Hill Homestead had shared a great article on Harvesting and Curing Onions on last week’s blog hop, I knew I had to feature it this week! 

Welcome to our Farm Fresh Tuesday Blog Hop!

Thank you for visiting our Farm Fresh Tuesday Blog Hop! I have teamed up with some other awesome homesteading bloggers to host this awesome blog hop! Each Tuesday this blog hop opens for you to share your posts on gardening, herbalism, crafts, homesteading, food preservation.

Feel free to share your in season gardening and homesteading posts with us and please feel free to share this blog hop where ever you like! There is a link down below for you to click on to share your posts!

To Be Featured on the Farm Fresh Tuesday Blog Hop:

Please remember, for a chance to be featured next week, PLEASE LINK TO OUR BLOG HOP in your post! It has been difficult to find articles that had followed thru with this the last few weeks!

Also, it helps to have your own featured image in your post, other than a pin! Especially in round up posts! Thank you!

Your Farm Fresh Tuesday Blog Hop Hosts Are:

AnnMarie from 15 Acre Homestead

Essential Tips for Starting Out in Farming from Annie at 15 Acre Homestead

Shelle from Rockin W Homestead

Curried Pickled Eggs by Shelle at Rockin W Homestead

Lisa from The Self Sufficient HomeAcre

Stuffed Poblano Pepper Recipe by Lisa at The Self Sufficient HomeAcre

And myself! I’m Tamara and I blog here at The Reid Homestead

Are You Ready to Start Preserving Your Harvest this Summer?

Your Farm Fresh Tuesdays Blog Hop Hosts are all participating in a summer-long blogger roundup event, Preserving the Harvest! This round up, includes different ways of preserving 23 of the most popular fruits and vegetables!

Each blog post participating, lists all the other posts near the bottom of their post! Each post, focuses on one fruit or vegetable, and all the ways to preserve it!

I am sharing all about Preserving Green Beans! Some of my other food preservation posts include: freezing berries, roasting and freezing winter squash & pumpkin, and freezing tomatoes.

Check the list at the bottom of my post to see all the other fruits and vegetables and how to preserve them! You can find a ton of great recipes and preservation methods from our blogging friends in this round up!

Share Your Farm Fresh Posts This Week!

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1. 12 Tips to Survive Summer on Your Homestead	2. How to Freeze Sweet Peppers	3. Stuffed Poblano Peppers
4. The Easiest Pickled Hot Peppers You Can Make!	5. How to Keep Your Chickens Cool in the Heat and Collect Eggs All Summer!	6. Cooling Eucalyptus Mint Body Spray!
7. How to Harvest and Store Root Crops	8. How and When to Harvest Garlic	9. How to Plant Onion Seedlings
10. The Secret to Easy Gardening, Use Mulch for No Weeding!	11. 7 Reasons Why You Should Grow Blue Jarrahdale Pumpkins	12. Colorful Summer Patio, Part 1
13. Lighting the Way to Our Home	14. Essential Tips for Starting Out Farmimg	15. Eco-Friendly Cleaning Recipes Used By Our Grandmothers
16. Herbs on the Homestead: an Introduction	17. How to Save Winter Squash Seed	18. Dehydrating Fruit Pretreatment
19. DIY One Rope Tree Swing	20. Make Your Own Kefir	21. Alternatives to Facial Tissues
22. Grilled Bacon Wrapped Steak – Little Frugal Homestead	23. Happenings on the Homestead – Little Frugal Homestead	24. Cakes made with fresh seasonal ingredients
25. Make yogurt at home – its easy!	26. The Ants Go Marching	27. Herb Bed! Recreating A Loved Space
28. How to milk a cow	29. Blueberry Pomegranate Smoothie	30. Save Money With Homemade Taco Seasoning
31. 5 Easy Stuffed Zucchini Boats – Little Frugal Homestead	32. Blueberry Meringues	33. Freezing Herbs
34. How to Make Homemade Bone Broth	35. The Miracle Morning: How To Create an Extraordinary Life	36. A quick stenciled Dollar Tree towel
37. Homesteading: Chickies, Veggies, Photos	38. Lessons from Clay in the Potters Hands	39. You Might be a Homesteading Homeschooler
40. Go Berry Picking (with Kids) W/O Losing Your Mind	41. Friday Friendship Feature–Getting Published	42. Headboard made from old kitchen cupboards
43. DIY Farmhouse Cake Stand	44. Wordless Wednesday	45. Easy, Frugal Lemon & Yellow Decor, Florida Allows Front Yard Veggies
46. The Other Side of Amazon Prime	47. Shabby Floral Duck Tape Luggage Tags	48. Quick and Easy Shrimp Stir Fry
49. Finding My Path As the Children Get Older

Thank You!

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