Shallots ??

[Kirk]

OK, I am too lazy to go search for it, but when can/do you plant shallots ?

Sort of could I do it now for a row of them ?

[KevinM67]

The "Growing Guides" on here are really quite informative - you can find the tab just under the main title banner.

However, I've provided the link below because you admitted you were lazy.

Growing Shallots | How To Grow | Grow Your Own

[veggiechicken]

Careful, Kevin or Kirk will be asking you to plant them for him next

[Spunky]

Kirk you can try zabrune shallots from seed in March have a look at them been grown on allotment diary on you tube

[Snadger]

You're SUPPOSED to plant them in February.............but mine are going in next week as an experiment!

[Bigmallly]

You're SUPPOSED to plant them in February.............but mine are going in next week as an experiment!

I put some in a couple of months ago as an experiment & they are going crazy.............that may all change though.

[Alicante]

When I was a child our next door neighbour always planted his shallots on boxing day.

[Alison]

I plant in modules early Feb in the greenhouse and outdoors on the plot in March

[Kirk]

So it seems from August/September to March is when people have done or tried them.
That is a pretty wide planting time.

Careful, Kevin or Kirk will be asking you to plant them for him next

VC, planting them was I thought implicit when asking when they should be planted.
Can I assume that being a moderator of the site and therefore to uphold the site standards and expectations that you are going to travel over and obligue?
At least you do not have to pay to get out of Wales.

Any chance of you tiding the rest of the house while you are over this way?

[Alison]

So it seems from August/September to March is when people have done or tried them.
That is a pretty wide planting time.

Yes but you can get some types that are autumn planting and some that are spring so that's not unreasonable. Plus some people are planting spring types now as an experiment.

[roitelet]

I was always told to plant them on the shortest day and harvest them on the longest. Mine are in now!!!!

[veggiechicken]

VC, planting them was I thought implicit when asking when they should be planted.
Can I assume that being a moderator of the site and therefore to uphold the site standards and expectations that you are going to travel over and obligue?
At least you do not have to pay to get out of Wales.

Any chance of you tiding the rest of the house while you are over this way?

Sorry Kirk, I don't actually DO anything, I delegate
Ask Kevin, he's a very helpful young man

I've had shallots and onions in the ground for weeks and I've just planted some more in seed trays - some saved from this year's crop and some Red Sun that were being sold off cheap as old stock Set out some Spring planting onion sets today too. If they don't make it through the winter there's plenty of time to plant again in spring

[Chippy Minton]

My experience has been the autumn planted ones didn't thrive where I am (unlike the autumn planted onion sets). Spring planted ones put in in February (once the ground is soft enough to jab a hole) go wild and I get kilos of them So I'm sticking to that...

I tried, I tested, it's tried and tested and I'm getting old so set in me ways..... Oh and grumpy according to my kids.... and wife

I've a bit of ironing needs doing as well if there's people doing the rounds......