Growing Shallots for natural flavours enhancement in your daily meals is a great idea.
We had grown onions and garlics in the year 2008.
In early spring 2009 my husband bought the shallot sets to surprise me. He smiled and said to me that, I should plant something different.
He said: " I bought you something strong!".
Shallots look like little onions. Shallot bulb has stronger flavour
than onions. We see often extra strong flavour pale grey skin shallots,
and ordinary flavour brown skin shallots in the market.
Shallots are mostly used for food seasoning. Planting shallots is very easy and they need almost no care.
Shallots
love a weed free, good rich, light drainage, moist growing bed. They
love a sunny place; they are always happy to share their growing bed
with the other vegetable plants.
You
can get mini shallots from the organic garden seeds supplier around late
winter to early spring. It comes often with a 250 grams small brown
paper bag.
One complete shallot bulb should be attached to many individual
cloves like garlics. Each clove will grow into one complete bulb.
Grow
shallots the best in early spring. Their growing cycles are
similar to the garlics, but they grow much faster than garlic
bulbs.
How to Sow Shallots
Shallots are grown in clumps and they are shallow-rooted. Sow them half an inch deep and 4 inch apart or 12 inches in row, points up to level with the ground surface.
You may rely on the rich garden worm compost as your whole year round organic fertilizers: In this way, you serve nothing more than the natural rain water from the sky. You may leave the plant to extract their own fertilizers.
You may harvest the leaves everyday throughout the growing season and
harvest the complete bulbs when the bulbs are fully formed; or until the
leaves are dry and yellowish.
Harvest on a dry day. Pull out
the entire plant with the help from a digging tool and let them dry for
a few days in a cool place.
When dried, remove as much
ground as possible, cut the leaves half an inch above the shallot bulbs
and store in a dark cool and no moist place. They can last for a long
long time.
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