Check out these tips to lower cholesterol with lifestyle changes: 1  Reduce all fats in your diet. Pay particular attention to saturated fats.  Try to exercise 30 minutes a day. Go for a walk around the block after lunch or dinner, spend time in the garden, or ride bikes with the kids.
Dry the onion skins. After the onions are harvested, spread them out in a ventilated area so that the skins can harden. Do not remove the leaves. Allow the onions to cure for two to four weeks. Dry the onions in an area away from sunlight and humidity. Sunlight can taint the taste of the onions and make them bitter.
Onions are categorized according to day length; how much daylight there is when onions stop forming tops, or new green leaves and start making bulbs. SHORT DAY ONIONS: Begin forming bulbs when the day length is 10 to 12 hours. (Tend to do better in the south and west.) 'Granex' - Large, globe-shaped, sweet onions sometimes called the Vidalia onion.