This morning we put 32 lbs of chopped onions in the freezer and about 40 large slicer onions in the pantry. About 2 weeks ago most of the onion tops fell over and have been drying in the sun. Day before yesterday morning I pulled up onions and covered each patio table with all the onions they could hold. About 8 am this morning I pulled up the rest of the garden onions. About 9 am wife got out the chopper machine and started pealing onions. Any onion with a stem the size of a broom handle will not keep in the pantry so it has to be chopped even if it's a nice large slicer onion. For 3 hours I pealed onions outside and wife pealed onions in the kitchen. Wife ran the chopper machine and put onions in 1 lb. bags. Every time I had a basket of clean onions I took them to the kitchen. Bags are all a random mixture of, red, yellow, white, Vidalia, onions. Pantry has a random mix of the same 4 types of onions. Yesterdays evening after dinner pizza was already cooked we put raw sliced onions on the pizza, it was very good. We probably have a month or more of garden onions in the pantry. This year I was very careful not to put very much Ammonium sulfate fertilizer on onion plants we don't want spicy hot onions like last year.
