Overwintering Shallots.........
cugal
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Comments (10)We have a garlic farm in piedmont area of NC and plant shallots in the fall. They start growing in the winter and ours are up now. Last year I found a few shallots we had not fall planted and planted them in spring they never did well but with the drought not much did. Our summers come quick and hot and don't give garlic & shallots much chance to develop before the heat tells them they are finished so they do better being fall planted so they can grow some in the winter. Right now my shallots are 1-3" tall and some of our garlic is 8-12" tall. March is the month where the garlic can grow a foot quickly because the garlic has well established roots from our warm fall and winter temps. Hope your shallots do well and this fall try fall planting The garliclady...See Morestarted shallot from seed, now what?
Comments (1)i'm pretty sure shallots and onions are similar in culture......See MoreHarvesting Shallots - When?
Comments (44)I pulled my yellow multipliers today along with the rest of my garlic. All the onion plants had gone down but the foliage was not dried off. It will dry off well enough on the curing racks. I intend to braid them and use the braid for kitchen decoration until it is time to plant back this fall. For me that will be the same time I do my garlics and my tulips probably in mid October. I got very nice size but very poor numbers in the nests. These were not started from seed and have not bolted for me more than one or two plants in years, regardless of fall planted or spring planted. I suspect that seed strains of shallots and other multiplier true onions are more likely to bolt than the older pure set strains. The grey gourmet shallots are another species altogether while the rest are all various types of Allium cepa. I have not heard that the greys could be grown from seed or that they bolted....See MoreOK to Plant Shallot Bulbs?
Comments (1)I'm curious where you read that shallots take 45 days. If I plant sets in the fall, they are done the following summer (if they don't bolt). If I seed in the late winter/early spring, they are done in late summer. Either way it's well over 100 days. My thoughts are to plant again the same time you did in the fall. If it worked once it'll probably work again. I've never heard of planting alliums in the summer (except seeding overwintering types). Good luck....See Morecugal
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