Shallots (500 grams)

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These shallots are just beautiful and great for any use that onions would be used for and are particularly good roasted. We plant single bulbs which then multiply producing a clump of tasty shallots. Some bulbs also produce top set bulbils which can also be planted.

We’ve been growing these for nearly 20 years and, along with our other perennial alliums, they keep us in onions all year round. They are easy to grow and very productive – we definitely wouldn’t be without them!

They are planted between May and July and harvested December to January when the leaves start to die back. One advantage of this is that they are grown at a time when there is not so much competition for bed space. We then cure them in a dry shady place before hanging in sacks to store them. More creative people could plait them but we have too many for that!

Our Tree Onions and Shallots are quite similar and both are fantastic producers. They came from different sources though so we keep growing them as separate lines and they do produce differently in different seasons.

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