Plant shallots now!

Posted by TopVeg - February 11th, 2007

Today we have been planting shallots. The ground was pretty dry as the plot had been covered.

We planted 2 varieties:

  • Golden Gourmet
  • Home Farm Best (passed down the generations of our family)

Planting:

  • The soil was raked level

prepared seedbed

  • Fertiliser was sprinkled over the plot ( a handful)

fertiliser

  • The walking board placed over strip, to avoid walking on the soil, & compacting it.

walking board protects soil

  • Rows were measured out using a tape measure & sticks put at the end of each row. The rows are 30 cm. apart.

soil ready for shallots

  • The measuring stick was then used to space the shallots 15cm apart.

shallot planted every 15cm

  • The shallots were pushed into the soil

pushing shallot into soil

  • The soil was pushed back over the bulb, so that the top just sticks out.

2 shallots 15cm apart

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