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If ever you've wondered how to use up your old pantyhose in the garden........ here it is. I have lots of onions to harvest this year so after I picked them and cured them for a week in my garden shed, I move onto the next step.
I went to the thrift store and bought up all their unused pantyhose. I suppose you could use your own clean used ones but I didn't have any. I didn't have the heart to tell the gal working there what I was using them for. The bonus was they were all "Queen" sized and more onions fit in those.
I place one onion in the bottom and then tie a knot as close to that onion as possible. Then another onions get placed on top of the knot. This continues until the leg is full. I cut mine in half, leaving the control top portion on there so that they will hang with a stronger top. After all my hose are full I hang them from a rod in my pump house where it never freezes in the winter and have onions until I run out. Last year that was at least January and I didn't have nearly as many as I do this year. Fun and interesting idea for food preservation, don't you think?
Neat idea.
ReplyDeleteDonna
What a terrific idea Heather. Dress up those onions ;-)
ReplyDeleteHa! I've always thought this was a great idea, but I don't wear hose and was concerned about what the neighbors would think if I started banging on their doors asking if they had any spares with runs. heading to the nearest Goodwill is a great solution. Thanks, Heather!---Silence
ReplyDeletehahaha! pure brilliance! repurposing always gets me giddy
ReplyDeleteGreat! I use them to tie tomato plants to stakes.
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing the many uses for pantyhose! I enjoyed your blog! One day I hope to have a veggie garden.:)
ReplyDeleteGreat idea. I was wondering where you were getting all your pantyhose. Who wears those things anymore????
ReplyDeleteWe do that with the Vidalia onions ...they keep longer that way.
ReplyDeleteGreat idea.
ReplyDeleteBe sure to let us know in a few months how well this worked!
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Yea! I love the way these looks and I'm sure when you have a lot of them hanging there it looks like sculpture, thanks for the pictures!
ReplyDeleteThe title of your post had me thinking you were going to suggest that we all pay a little more attention to our mode of dress while gardening.
ReplyDeleteI think this is a much saner choice for those dratted things.
yap that's an excellent idea and i have no doubt it will work great.
ReplyDeleteNovel idea but I plait mineand have 13 plaits hanging in the kitchen which look great.Perhaps you grow to many but it doesn't take much time.
ReplyDeleteThis cracks me up! But looks like it works great!
ReplyDeleteCreative idea. Beats wearing them!
ReplyDeleteHeh! Finally a constructive use for pantyhose!
ReplyDeleteI can't remember the last time I wore those. I guess they'd also be good for storing garlic...
Neat idea! So do you just cut one off when you need one?
ReplyDeleteHeather,
ReplyDeleteI like this idea because then you don't have the mess of the dried onions skins all over the place.
Your onions look great!
Rosey
Hi Heather- thanks for visiting my blog- yours is great- the pantyhose idea is excellent, I'm still sad as my onion crop was pitiful this year, yours look beautiful, as does your whole garden- its huge! no wonder you had to buy another freezer, did you manage to eat everything up last winter?
ReplyDeleteThis is an excellent suggestion Heather! Do you think this would look silly hanging in my house! My onions always sprout before I use them...maybe I need to start cooking more often! gail
ReplyDeleteVery interesting post! Good to know.
ReplyDeleteOf course it's clever and thrifty. I can smell the goodness in each one.
ReplyDeleteYou might want to look into a copyright for that one!
ReplyDeleteInnovative and creative. I just posted about the many wonderful uses of hosiery in the garde on a post I did last week. Someone mentioned using it for onions--was that you? I'll have to go back and look. Loved the photos!
ReplyDeleteWhat a brilliant idea for the onions, i sure i have seen something similar last summer in France
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