{"id":696,"date":"2010-07-10T07:55:54","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T11:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itfarmer.wordpress.com\/?p=696"},"modified":"2010-07-10T07:55:54","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T11:55:54","slug":"harvesting-onions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=696","title":{"rendered":"Harvesting Onions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_697\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/variety.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-697\" class=\"size-full wp-image-697\" title=\"4 Varieties of Onions\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/variety.png\" alt=\"4 Varieties of Onions\" width=\"540\" height=\"429\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-697\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">4 Varieties of Onions<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many things in the garden are still new to me, such as when to harvest onions. I did a search on the internet, and found out that any time is the right time to pick them. The key to a good long lasting onion is how you harvest it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garden.org\/articles\/articles.php?q=show&amp;id=501\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a> is a very good explaination from the National Gardening Association. The basic idea is to allow the bulb time to &#8220;cure&#8221; so that it will not rot in storage. Above you can see four types of onions I&#8217;ve started this year. Some are doing better then others, and I suspect the placement of manure is the reason. I&#8217;ve placed a brick into the picture area to show size.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_698\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/before-and-after.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-698\" class=\"size-full wp-image-698\" title=\"Before and After\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/before-and-after.png\" alt=\"Before and After\" width=\"540\" height=\"329\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-698\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Before and After<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After reading the tutorial, I pulled one onion, and let it sit in the sun for a day. On the left of the photo above, is the first onion set out, and the right onion was freshly picked. Notice the changes to the roots ? In the left, they have started to wilter and dry, whereas on the\u00a0right they are still healthy. This is an important step, and I really recommend visiting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garden.org\/articles\/articles.php?q=show&amp;id=501\" target=\"_blank\">Garden.org<\/a> site mentioned above. Last year, I had not known about this process, and all of my onions were rotten before Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many things in the garden are still new to me, such as when to harvest onions. I did a search on the internet, and found out that any time is the right time to pick them. The key to a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=696\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,81],"tags":[244],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}