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Once the leaves have toppled I lift onions. At present I have the Japanese onions I harvested earlier placed upside down (using a dog cage as a drying rack.)
Even if nutrients do travel back into the onion from the dying leaves I don't think this would be reliant on gravity. Once dried I store my onions initially on the greenhouse staging then hung in a net outdoors. Its just easier for me to go to the back door if I need an onion and storing outdoors seems to keep them plump and they get an odd shower from the rain.I just top the net bag up with onions as I need them.
Sometimes, if I don't need the land I just let the onions get on with it and dry off naturally in-situ. Usually though they get weed infested and it is easier to lift the onions than weed around them!
Even if nutrients do travel back into the onion from the dying leaves I don't think this would be reliant on gravity. Once dried I store my onions initially on the greenhouse staging then hung in a net outdoors. Its just easier for me to go to the back door if I need an onion and storing outdoors seems to keep them plump and they get an odd shower from the rain.I just top the net bag up with onions as I need them.
Sometimes, if I don't need the land I just let the onions get on with it and dry off naturally in-situ. Usually though they get weed infested and it is easier to lift the onions than weed around them!
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