Warning.. silly question about onions

hello, like the heading says, when is the best time to pull them and this is the silly question do you have to dry them and if so how?, thanks

When the leaves have flopped and go yellow. Lift them all slightly with a fork but leave them in the ground afterwards for a couple of days. Harvest on a dry day and put them in a dry place such as the greenhouse if not too warm there, or shed. Store them upside down in something that will allow air circulation between the bulbs and leaves, and cut the roots and heavy leaves off. Leave them to dry until the skins rustle and can be pulled off easily.

Hiya,

I dried mine on the patio for a week, had to bring them home after digging them as other plot holders on my site had had their onions stolen 

I have strung them up, tied 8 or 10 onions onto a bit of string and hung them in the out house, cool, dark and slight air flow. This way the onions don't touch each other. I guess if you tied the onions into the tights, so that the knot held them apart (if that makes sence) it would stop them touching and reduce the chances o rot etc. The only problem is my out house smells really oniony at the moment and will for a couple of weeks before they are totoally dired!

Last year with the weather being so wet, I hung my onions on the clothes drier in the kitchen and then plaited their stems together.  Unfortunately I don't have a large garden so they were all used by January.