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 ...

Like dishes packed with oniony-garlicky flavors? Grow shallots! This crop keeps for months, too, so you can continue enjoying its flavors in your winter soups and casseroles. (For details on growing ...

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 ...

Gardeners these days tend to purchase transplants from the nursery, rather than planting seeds and growing their own. The availability of a wide variety of vegetable, herb and bedding plant ...

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 ...

Planting a single shallot set or bulb will produce a cluster of eight to 10 large, edible bulbs. That makes it a real money saver, considering the price of shallots in the grocery store. I usually ...

Many gardeners have a habit of abandoning sowing once fall comes around, putting their seed packets away until spring. However, it needn't be the case. Growing your own food can be a year-round ...

Similar to onions, shallots are easy to grow in gardens across the UK and are incredibly rewarding. While planting and raising these sweet, bulbous vegetables is easy, they are vulnerable to pests ...

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 ...