We'll Be Eating Onions I Guess!

[Tooldummy]

My wife and daughters ran into town yesterday and noticed that the local Rural King had onion sets for .02 cents a lb. yesterday. My oldest went back today and I told her to buy me a dollars worth. She got me 34 lbs, all they had left. The lady checking her out laughed when the big bag came to .68 cents! I don't need near that many, but I can have that much fun giving them to all my gardening friends. I don't see how they fool with them for two cents a pound.

[sally]

What a deal!! Congrats!
We planted a row of 1015 onion sets, and they were doing well a week later, but something came along and ate all the tops. Guess I should keep onion sets in the fenced garden only.

[ScrubbieLady]

Onions can be peeled, chopped and frozen and used for a lot of things. They can also be sliced, dried and ground up to make onion powder for seasonings.

[leera]

That is a LOT of onions! I thought what I planted was a lot,sheesh.. :)

[momma_to_seven_chi]

What a wonderful find you had! I would slice, dice, dehydrate all I could. I don't have a dehydrator, but an oven or the picnic table with some screen will work too.

[CountryBertha]

Sally, the same thing happened to us and not just with the onions but with the garlic as well.

We discovered it was rabbits. We had been told onions and garlic are poisonous to rabbits and learned that sure wasn't true. What we caught were escaped rabbits that had gone ferral, and they were huge. I'm talking bigger than our dog and they stank like our onions and our garlic.

One of our elderly family members had something eating their tomatoes, and they depended on that garden for their food. I had to go sit out there and watch to see what it was, and believe it or not it was their Beagle dog! He was pulling off those tomatoes and munching out on them.

Sure wish I had kept some of those big rabbits for breeding. Oh well.

[leera]

I haven't had any issues yet,so either they haven't found the garden,or the electric fence is actually doing what it's supposed to.lol.Last year the deer ate all my Romaine lettuce,apparently they REALLY like Romaine more than the other types....

[Terri]

LOL, I had a spaniel once that liked bell peppers. I did not mind so much her getting the peppers but she usually took part of the plant that the pepper was growing on as well! One time after a frost I was uprooting plants and found one large pepper with orange streaks that I had somehow missed, and the leaves had protected it from frost: I set it aside for a treat-last pepper of the season- and when I looked up a minute later the dog had it.... BAD dog! It would have been delicious!

Oh, well. She was a good dog.

I will have onions this year also. I planted a few and then I have some volenteers as well: not enough of them to eat green onions but once they get some size on them I should have enough onions for a couple-three months. My family likes them in stir fries, and if they get large enough I make a mean onion ring though that is a lot of work!

[dmj24]

1st time posting here. I am excited because it WORKED! WOOHOO!!!!
Next time you have an abundance of onions and garlic like that chop them up into chunks , put them on a cookie sheet in a single layer and put them in the freezer for a couple of hours. When they are frozen put them in a zip loc bag and return to the freezer. As long as you don't thaw them they will stay frozen and seperate for over a year. They will be great in recipes you cook . They also do well in a stir fry. I do the same thing with bell peppers. Nice thibg is, when you need them for a recipe they are already cut up and just waiting to be measured into your favorite dish.
same thing with garlic.
Sounds to me you had a bonanza for under a dollar!!!!
The only time you need to buy the onions, peppers or garlic is if you want to eat raw.

[Junie]

Welcome to the forum, dmj24! I do the same thing with onions and peppers. Sure makes it easier to get just what you need for a recipe.

I also dehydrate a lot of them - most, in fact. I don't have the best power company in the world and have lost a bunch of stuff when the power has been out, so drying foods is safer.

Really good deal on the onion sets, TD. Our feed store never has prices like that, even at the end of the season.

[bookwormom]

1st time posting here. I am excited because it WORKED! WOOHOO!!!!
Next time you have an abundance of onions and garlic like that chop them up into chunks , put them on a cookie sheet in a single layer and put them in the freezer for a couple of hours. When they are frozen put them in a zip loc bag and return to the freezer. As long as you don't thaw them they will stay frozen and seperate for over a year. They will be great in recipes you cook . They also do well in a stir fry. I do the same thing with bell peppers. Nice thibg is, when you need them for a recipe they are already cut up and just waiting to be measured into your favorite dish.
same thing with garlic.
Sounds to me you had a bonanza for under a dollar!!!!
The only time you need to buy the onions, peppers or garlic is if you want to eat raw.

welcome on board and thanks. I have done that with other things, too. Berries, broccoli florets, etc. so I can take out as much as I need. then my sister in law left my freezer door somewhat open and until I noticed it stuff had melted. I have a lump of broccoli the size of my head.