#Ulog 2 – Putting Harvests Away
Using the knife netted me an extra half a jar of dehydrated onion from the 2 dehydrators this morning. Now I have 1¼ gallon jars of dehydrated Walla onions for the next year, and some.
Next I got my yogurt made and headed into the living room to try to clean out some of the harvests still sitting in there.
I’d gotten the garlic ready to be graded back over a week ago. But I’d not been able to sit down and do it until today.
L – R, back: 2 red bags of German Extra Hardy seed, 4 bags of bulbs to eat and sell. Front: purple bag has Chesnok Red seed, red bag for eating
Left: German seed, 6 cloves, Right: Chesnok Red seed
I was impressed with the seed bulbs this year. Not only do they have large cloves, but they have gone from 4/bulb to 5-6/bulb on a few. The results:
• German Extra Hardy
• 360 – 370 cloves for planting seed, weighing 14.45 lbs
• 16.65 lbs of inferior bulbs for selling and eating
• Total: 33 lbs
• Chesnok Red
• 40 cloves for planting seed, weighing .53 lb
• .65 lb of inferior bulbs for eating
• Total: 1.18 lbs
• Total Harvest: 34 lbs
Garlic in the root cellar in back, last of the onions in front
So the garlic went down to the root cellar and I started on the potatoes.
They had been laid out on paper to cure due to so much rain. They seemed perfectly happy there, but I was tired of them in the living room. They had already been graded by size, so they just needed bagged up and weighted. The results:
• Large: 6.23 lbs
• Medium 16.14 lbs
• Small 6.34 lbs
• Damaged were not weighed (I forgot) but I’m guessing 22 lbs, turned into 27 pints of French fries
Total: 50.71 lbs
I have a potato box in the root cellar. My husband and son are the only ones who eat potatoes, and they don’t eat a lot of them. So this is big enough for us.
The variety is organic Dark Red Norland from Moose Tubers/Fedco.
Once the living room was emptier, I had Walla onions to chop for the freezer. I pulled up 12 more of them. The first 2 onions alone netted 12 cups of chopped onion.
The 12 onions gave me 38 cups of chopped onions for the freezer.
There’s still ¾ of a row of them out in the garden. I am undecided on whether to process them before they rot, or gamble they will survive until the tomatoes ripen and I can use them for sauce and ketchup.
Tomorrow, I figure out how to keep the storage onions dry during the next monsoon….
Wow, what a harvest! :)
You're making me want a root cellar. Perhaps a project for bext year.