Storing onions.

Somebody told me that when you store onions they must not be touching each other. The person said he drops one down a pair of old tights, ties a knot, then drops the next one down, ties another knot, and so forth.

Is this true?

Ah! I just knew there'd be a catch somewhere! 

Your right DD an old Neighbour showed me how to string onions when i was  kid

I have had mine in a dumped supermarket basket (dumped at church). Around Jan/Feb they can start to soften, so I then cut them up and freeze and cook from frozen.

There used to be a link on here to good old Jack Hargreaves doing it, but that YouTube video now comes up as "private".

They don't make TV people like Jack anymore do they! - I think I've got the other half of this episode on VHS somewhere – where he takes us through the growing of a bed of big onions and then in his kitchen he stuffs one with a fatty kidney, puts the two halves back together, wraps in a couple bacon rashers pinned with sausage sticks and bakes – his 'kidney onions'