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Traditionally shallots (latin name – Allium ascalonicum) are grown from
sets, but vegetable gardeners have started to grow shallots from seed,
instead. One of the advantages of growing shallots from seed is that the
viral, bacterial and fungal diseases, that are usually carried over to
the next crop on the bulbs, cannot survive in the seed. So shallots
grown from seed should be healthier.

Shallot seed is similar to onion seed & can be grown using the same
techniques. The seed can be started off in modules in the spring &
transplanted, or sown directly into the garden.

    * seed depth – 1 cm
    * germination time – 21 days
    * distance between rows – 20 cm
    * distance within the row 1 cm

They are ready for harvesting at the same time as the onions- June to
September. Each seed produces a single shallot bulb.

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To produce the best yield of well shaped bulbs it is important to sow
seed at one cm spacing. Seed sown too thinly can result in the bulbs
becoming coarse and splitting.

Shallots are stored in the same way as onions.

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