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    We always kept onions in an outhouse but because ours are granite they tend to be damp and also host various hungry guests/pests/wildlife (delete any two)
    Last summer we just hung them up in the kitchen, which runs warm and dry. Now, seven months on (autumn started, picked June/July) they are fine and look like they'll keep quite a bit longer.
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    I live in a part of the UK with very mild winters. Please take this into account before thinking "if he is sowing those now...."

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    We keep ours both in the granite barn and in the kitchen armoire .
    The barn is airy but we sometimes get rats eating any produce left out in there.
    I think my kitchen is too warm for our onions tbh as they do go soft fairly quickly.
    Yours look very healthy...we get through that many within 2weeks!
    "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

    Location....Normandy France

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    • #3
      I usually keep mine in the garage, but last year I had a real problem with maggots eating the bulbs in storage. I may well try keeping some in the kitchen this year, providing they don't all succumb to white rot!

      First I need to get some sets though...
      A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy

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      • #4
        I also thought our kitchen would be too warm: we old, feel the cold, and have more or less continuously running wood burner. It is dry though with externally vented cooker hood and de-humidifier couple of hours each night.

        We ripened them for couple of weeks on greenhouse staging before bringing them in.

        We use 2 or 3 a week so have about month and half left.
        I live in a part of the UK with very mild winters. Please take this into account before thinking "if he is sowing those now...."

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        • #5
          I've had mine hanging in my under stairs cupboard since late July. It's a little cooler and less damp than the kitchen, but it's still very much inside the house conditions.
          I only have about 8 onions left now (I had 23kg at the beginning), but they've kept very well. I haven't had any go bad, or shrivel up, or start growing, and only two or three which have had even a small amount of surface mould.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by quanglewangle View Post
            We always kept onions in an outhouse but because ours are granite they tend to be damp and also host various hungry guests/pests/wildlife (delete any two)
            Last summer we just hung them up in the kitchen, which runs warm and dry. Now, seven months on (autumn started, picked June/July) they are fine and look like they'll keep quite a bit longer.
            You have the same butchers apron as I use.

            I still have quite a few onions left sitting on the greenhouse staging in trays. From there, and as required I bring a dozen home and hang them in an open mesh sack outdoors (hanging on the end of the woodpile.) The woodpile is near to the kitchen door where I can just pop out and grab an onion if I need one.
            My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
            to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

            Diversify & prosper


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            • #7
              You have the same butchers apron as I use.
              Crate and Barrel, S. Dearborn St Chicago (now closed). Bought 1998, worn well!
              I live in a part of the UK with very mild winters. Please take this into account before thinking "if he is sowing those now...."

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