Looks like it's going to rain today, so I'm going to make a drying rack and get
these onions inside. I'm Liz Zorab and this is Byther Farm.
They've being laid out,
drying in the sunshine, I'm going to get them all into the wheelbarrow so I can
get them inside if it does start to rain and get them under cover.
I don't want to
handle them too roughly or throw them around because I don't
want to bruise them because that means that they won't store so well.
So now I have all the onions and some garlic gathered together, I'm going to get this
in the dry. There may be some more onions on the patio as well, but I'll get them
into the dry and then I'll start making a rack to dry them on.
You do a little shimmie!
So yes, so there were some more drying on the table.
This is really useful because it's got slats and I can just slide them through and it
holds them in place. But they're coming off here because I want to keep these dry too.
This one I'm going to leave behind and take it into the kitchen and
use it. It's split and started growing again, so no good for storage.
So to make my first of my frames for garlic and onion drying racks I'm using old pallet
wood, so I've measured out the pieces I want marked them using my my favorite
chalk pencil.
So I've put that somewhere really safe - on the kitchen table!
lining up my piece of wood to the center of this hole
I'm so excited it's so quick to get done so I've got two side pieces and next
I'll cut the two two shorter pieces so I've got a drill screwdriver and some
screws and I think I'm probably not going to try and take this off because
it does tend to perhaps lutely wreck the wire so I'm gonna try and do a repair
job and I need to decide whether I want it whether I want this to sit at the top
of the piece of wood in the center or at the bottom of the piece of wood the
advantage of it being at the bottom is actually will form a lip around the edge
which will stop the onions or garlic rolling off it but the disadvantage that
is that there's a nip on the edge
so this one's gonna be a bit harder because because it hasn't what you would
along here
what it has got is pretty rotten you see what we can say
well that worked
so all I have left to do is sort out this side here where the where the wood
is rotten I'm just going to pop a bit of support on the underneath so it won't
put on the underneath here so it won't pop through and then it's done
so want to fix that to there to stop this squishing down you can see how
rotten this word is and then also it's this I can get that bit off a little
better yeah it's just crumbling in my hand so if I can fit that onto there
that would be perfect so how that one I support that so here's my drying rack I
can pop in a couple of extra staples on this side to hold that netting in place
but now I've got plenty of space to put the onion necks through there and I can
either prop this between two chairs or hang it and I'm going to hang it because
I want this project to cost nothing to be recycled materials we've got the old
poultry panel netting thing recycled pallet wood recycled ballantine and the
only thing that I don't have to recycle that is an S hook to hang it from in the
barn but these will get used over and over again
I'm literally just going to use the baling twine to make two hanging loops
and then when I get to the bomb I'll adjust the height that they need to be
so it's level
and then I can get the Indians on it so I'm out here in the piggery I'm going to
try and strap something up over that beam to hang my onion error my onion
dryer from now I've got this angry mess which I think a guy ropes from a tent or
something similar I can't even remember what it was from but we have them when I
kept them in case they were useful and here we go they are now about to become
useful
so not too high reach
then I'll get the rock
well I am really pleased I've haven't adjusted it on it's pretty level but if
I needed to I can just undo one of the corners and adjust the strings but it
now means I can put my onions through here wasn't necessarily the quickest job
to do this morning but that's because I was trying to work out what to do and I
think with the next one I'm going to cover it with chicken wire and I'll just
make a frame and cover it with chicken wire put the onion onions through but
I'm really pleased for zero cost this is great
look at the hut I am it's straight line I'm so excited that is just brilliant