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Sprouted onions good for anything?

Igotadose · 2023-03-24 11:15:56

So, last year, I grew a bag of Lidl onion starts, for the first time. Got around 150 'useable size' onions out of it, all sorts of white varieties. We've been using the onions, and they're fine. The trouble is, the remaining ones, in a mesh hammock I put up in the shed, are sprouting before we can use them. I did dry them…

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24-03-2023 12:15pm

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So, last year, I grew a bag of Lidl onion starts, for the first time. Got around 150 'useable size' onions out of it, all sorts of white varieties.
We've been using the onions, and they're fine. The trouble is, the remaining ones, in a mesh hammock I put up in the shed, are sprouting before we can use them. I did dry them out and cut off the dried-out stems when I harvested the onions late last summer, I'd planted them in like April or May, I forget.
Anyone got any recommendations on what to do with sprouted onions? Recipes? Compost? I don't want to start another onion crop until the autumn.
Recommendations on how to store them so they won't sprout welcome as well. The shed has a couple translucent ceiling panels and gets pretty warm when the sun hits it. I eventually realized that my onion hammock was getting some sunlight so I put black-plastic curtains around it, but the onions still continue to sprout. Don't really have any better place to store onions unfortunately. Maybe some kind of box outdoors?

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