Welcome to another garden related post. Today I want to share a recent onion and garlic harvest that happened as well as some before and after photos!
Going back to the third week of March, this was an onion and garlic planting day and on the right is a photo from May. Planting onions and potatoes is probably the hardest out of all the veggies, at least from my personal experience. That probably has to do with the fact we plant a lot of those so we can store as much as we can and use it all throughout winter. We do have a time window of buying these veggies but that depends on how successful the gardening season was and how much we managed to store.
Onions and garlic are also hard to maintain as there's a lot of weed growing that needs to be cleaned up, especially when they are still growing. We ate A LOT of spring onions, maybe that's the reason why we harvested way less yellow onions compared to the purple ones. On the right side you can see how the area looks like after the harvest - it's not just from onions and garlic but also from peas that we harvested before. It still needs to be cleared out a little bit this free space will be used up for cabbage, at least the majority of it.
Once the spring onions were "overgrown" and we didn't pick up any, we kind of stopped clearing out the weeds and just let the onions grow until it was time to harvest them. At that point, weed didn't affect them and it was way less work for us.
A closer look at yellow onion.
Final harvest! It needs to dry well in the sun before we store it in mesh bags. There's some smaller onions in the plastic crates, the bigger and better looking ones will be saved for later. In the evening, all this is moved inside the shed and then moved back outside in the morning.
Here's a crate full of garlic which also needs to dry well and I think this will be stored hanging in the shed. I think our harvest is a little bit smaller compared to the last year and we use a lot of onions for cooking, salads and such so we will see how long this batch will last us. We try to produce as much as we can so we can avoid buying but some seasons are more successful than other and that's all part of gardening journey. However, I am very happy and grateful for everything we have, no matter how big or small the harvest is!
