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Question: I’ve grown onions and garlic in my garden and I’d like to try shallots this year. Do you have any suggestions for growing them? A: Shallots are an easy-to-grow cool-season vegetable. With a ...

Question: My husband planted some shallot starts in the garden last fall. They sprouted this spring and they seem to be growing pretty well. This is our first time growing shallots, and we both just ...

Question: Have you grown shallots? When do you plant them? Answer: Shallots are biennial, like onions or garlic. In fact, all onions, scallions and shallots are members of the species called Allium ...

Winter might seem like a time to pack up your garden tools and call it a season, but did you know it's one of the best times to grow hardy crops like garlic, onions, and shallots? These delicious, ...

Shallots are a member of the onion family, they are smaller and sweeter than traditional onions and highly revered by chefs. You can get shallots in different colors, sizes and shapes, yet all are ...

Shallots are among the tastiest members of the onion family. They also are among the most expensive. In Maine, most people plant their shallots as soon as the soil can be worked in the spring, and ...

Here in the mild maritime Northwest, cold snaps seldom linger long and spring seems to arrive close on the heels of our brief winters. Already, it's warm enough to begin sowing a few crops like winter ...

If you can overlook the inevitable bad breath, there are many reasons to fill your gardens with alliums — onions, garlic, shallots and leeks. Master Gardener Janet Miller, who manages the Walnut Creek ...

PLANNING AHEAD: To reap spring and summer harvests of garlic, shallots and other alliums, September through October is the ideal time to get bulbs in the ground for building root systems through the ...

Shallot seeds are just seeds, not full bulbs. They need to be sown like other seeds, and therefore take a bit longer to come to maturity. Seeds will cover a larger area more easily and cheaply than ...