Summer Onion Harvest

Very chuffed with the two rows of Radar onions that I planted in the autumn. I harvested them in the third week of June and am drying them now on racks before storing.

I dug them up very carefully so as not to bruise them and was delighted with the size of them - there were some huge ones amongst them.

I filled a barrow with them and brought them in for drying as the weather is still very unsettled. I can dry them under the cover of an open barn and just drag them out into the sun when it is shining (not often at the moment!)

I used the metal shelves of the old plastic greenhouse that I used to grow seedlings in last year before I put in our permanent greenhouse - good to find such a good use for it. 

 Radar will store well for about three months..just into the autumn. They are beautifully filling a gap...just when the leeks and last years onions have run out and the winter stores are low. Perfect timing. 

Aren't they beautiful? Can't wait to string them up and hang them in the shed!