I bought in most of the onion harvest some 3-5 weeks ago and they have been in storage since. I planted mostly Cream Golds. I planted 120-odd, thinking this would be nowhere near enough.
Well, they grew … and grew … and grew, thriving on complete neglect. I have harvested about 100 of them (the others either bolted too early or wandered off into the neighbours or simply absconded), and they were huge. I mean huge.
At the moment I am slicing and dicing them (thank you so much to the person who invented electric mandolins) and I have got through 10 (hey, they are big!) and those 10 have produced over thirty cups of diced onions. That means 300 cups of diced onions.
Will that be enough for one girl for a year? That is almost 6 cups of onions a week to get through.
I think that’s enough. 
I won’t dice them all but it is a great way of storing them for ease of use through the year once the fresh ones have been finished.
This weekend I need to get a start on the potatoes - mashing them and freezing them as well.
March 5th, 2010 at 3:58 pm
Damn, woman! thats a whole lotta onion!
You could try putting some through the dehydrator too
They would be great in soups and slowcooked casseroles then!
March 5th, 2010 at 4:02 pm
Tell me about it. LOL
I’m not fond of dehydrated onion. I’ve done them in the past and have hardly ever used them, even in stews etc. I’m doing freezing this year and hope I don’t suffer a devastating power failure!
I haven’t mentioned the shallots, of which I have hundreds as well - I may try pickling some of them.
March 5th, 2010 at 6:35 pm
LOL and now I’ve read through some of your recent posts I see I said nothing you didn’t already know… that’ll teach me!
Pickled shallots sound good
March 6th, 2010 at 7:51 am
My freezer stinks of onions at the moment. I diced and bagged about 50 of them and two weeks later the smell is still noticeable every time the freezer door is opened.
Still.. it’s a good job to have done. Last time I did this, I diced and bagged 10 kilo bag on onions and it took 12 months to finally work my way through them. Very handy for emergencies when I’ve run out of fresh ones and would have had to go to the shops.
March 6th, 2010 at 7:54 am
They *are* very handy - even last night, even when I still have scores of fresh ones, I went to the freezer for a handful rather than hassle with cutting and slicing a fresh one.
March 6th, 2010 at 7:56 pm
Well “you must know your onions” as Londoners say, (I think). What on earth are you going to do with them all.
March 7th, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Hmm. I learn a great deal on this site. I have battled keeping onions. I’ve used dried long ago and disliked it. Never kept diced frozen. I must admit I still shy from the idea. Tend to use spring onions -Allium fistulosum - to fill the gaps. I do prefer using fresh to frozen anything anyway. Um. I cheat too. Spring onions from the lowlands (no frost) were always on sale long before mine were even tinking about being viable. They’re sold root-on and I found planting them they strated growing again, and I had several months to use them.
They must indeed be very large onions.
March 8th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
I love your blog and you give my husband and I plenty of ideas for our own garden. Although we will need to adapt to Queensland climate. By the way, my husband is drooling over your oven and stove from London!!
March 12th, 2010 at 9:31 am
Just came across your blog, and I love it!
How do you keep your frozen onions from stinking out your whole freezer though?
March 12th, 2010 at 8:57 pm
Hi! I’m new to this blog too.
That is an incredible amount of onions! Lucky onions go with a lot of dishes!
I’ve also browsed through the pictures of your house, and I think it’s awesome!! =D
May 23rd, 2010 at 7:58 am
Just popped back. I’ve been growing perpetual spring onions… got pots of them all over the place… and now I’m using them in place of onions. I’m just cutting them off at ground level and they grow back. This is the second year I’ve been going this and it works like a charm.
(I still have the frozen onions for emergencies…)