This past season saw perhaps the best onion harvest we’ve had. They were larger than other years and still so tasty. Because of their size, we could give out fewer of them and give you more at the same time. Because of that, even though we grew the same (actually a bit less) row feet, there were more. Most of this I would subscribe to the added fertility that the chicken wagon adds going through the rest areas the year before.
However this might have a consequence. This extra fertility might make them bigger, but might also make them not store as well. We don’t have the best onion storage anyway, but they usually keep through early spring. But this past season also saw an unusually wet August (remember the tomato late blight?). So just as the storage onions were sizing up, there was maybe too much water. This would impact their storage.
All this to say, the onions are starting to go off. We have an abundance of them, so I will offer them free choice (as still one of the items). We’ve been eating the off ones, and they are starting to go bad from the outside. So the one or two outer layers might be no good, but the inner layers are fine. It’s sometimes hard to tell before peeling it. So feel free to take extra and make use of what we have.
Onion soup? Caramelized onions with every meal?
An Onion Story (that might make you cry)
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