How to Sort + Store Onions

Sorting your crops into good-keepers and bad-keepers is key to long storage. Bad-keepers run the risk of rot, which spreads and takes the good-keepers down. One bad apple really does spoil the bunch.

After the onions are dug, spread them on wire racks or in baskets, to cure. Once the skins have dried sort them, before storing them.

The keepers are determined by an undamaged skin and a neck that bends - this signifies a nicely sealed neck. Hold the onion by the leaves, just above the neck, and if it bends it's a keeper. If it doesn't bend, it wont store.

Trim the tops off the ones that wont store, pile them into a basket and bring them into the kitchen for using first.

String the keepers up, or trim the tops off and hang them in onion sacks somewhere airy and dry and out of direct sun.