How to Grow Exceptional Produce

Growing vegetables: Drying your onions

with JANE SCOTTER — Leading biodynamic grower of fruit and vegetables. Supplier to Michelin star restaurant Spring.

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If you want good onions, you need to cure them. Jane will guide you through the process step-by-step.

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Growing Vegetables: Drying Your Onions

Curing onions means allowing them to dry out and acquire their brown onion skins.

How to Cure Onions:

  1. Brush off any excess mud.
  2. If any onions have rot on them, put them aside to use immediately.
  3. Lay your onions out on newspaper, a pallet or on any other breathable surface to dry out.
  4. Allow as much air circulation as possible to aid the drying, and do not let your onions touch one another.
  5. Once the onion stems have dried out completely and the onions have dry brown skins then you can cut off the stems and compost them.

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Jane Scotter

Leading biodynamic grower of fruit and vegetables. Supplier to Michelin star restaurant Spring.

Jane Scotter has been farming at Fern Verrow - her certified biodynamic farm at the foothills of the Black Mountains in Herefordshire - since 1996, where she cultivates a wide range of truly seasonal vegetables, fruit, herbs and flowers. Jane believes that vegetables and fruit grown in good soil, at the right time of year and open to the elements have a greatly enhanced character and flavour, and that size and shape are unimportant when compared to taste and true quality. Since 2015 she has had a farm-to-table collaboration with Michelin starred chef Skye Gyngell and her London restaurant, Spring, and also grows flowers for acclaimed London florists, JamJar Flowers.

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