Allotment Gardening - How to string onions for storage

Stringing onions is a good way to prepare your onion harvest for storage.

First you need to dry your onions for a couple of weeks. If possible lay them out in the sun for a few days.
Then dry them in a well aired greenhouse or shed. I hang them on my shelves , the shelves have slots in them so i can push the green stems through the slots.

When the stems are dry like these, you can string them together.

remove the roots and any mucky layers on the outside of the onion.
if there are any signs of mould then dont use those onions for stringing. keep them and use them up first for eating.

You now need a piece of string, which you fold in half then tie a knot. so you now have 2 strands.

Fold the string in half again and hang from a nail

you now have 4 strands.

take your first onion, make this a big 1. seperate the string so you have 2 sets of strands and push your onion stem through the strands, then fold the stem under itself, back over the top then push through 2 different strands.

Now do the same with the next onion

Repeat again with another onion

when you have a base of 4 or 5 onions you can carry on by just wrapping the next onion stem around the string, folding under and around and then pushing the stem through 2 strands of string. always put the next onion through 2 different strands from the last.

keep on going till you have enough on 1 string, then hang them up in a cool dry place.
then take an onion as needed from the top.