good thread but I now have a bit of a problem, few weeks ago I bought 2 punnets of Onions, 1 x Sturon and 1 x Shallots, the shopkeeper put them in their own brown paper bag but not labelled. I compared the sets to some on-line pictures and decided what where what and planted. Now what I thought were Sturon maybe the shallots from going on this thread because what I thought were Sturon have between 8 and 14 shoots and the others have about 3, can you tell I have never grew Shallots before - methinks a label change is in order