Growing Shallots
Organic Vegetable Gardening
Fact Sheet
Botanical name: Allium cepa var. aggregatum
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| Planting time: | SP,FA | ||
| Seeds per ounce: | 6-8 bulbs | ||
| Ounces per square foot: | - | ||
| Minimum legal germination rate: | 75% | ||
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Notes Harvest Shallots before flowering when the tops start to die back. Your most success will come from starting Shallots sets. Growing from seeds in flats easy, but requires more patience. |
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Planting |
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| In garden spacing (inches): | 4 | < | |
| In flat spacing (inches): | Broadcast | ||
| Planting depth (inches): | Cover seed with soil. | ||
| Maximum number of plants per square foot: | 13 | ||
| Nutrient relationship:: | Light Feeder | ||
Harvest |
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| Days to maturity: | 119-182 | ||
| Harvesting period (days): | - | ||
| Minimum yields in pounds /square foot: | .5 | ||
Cultural |
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| Diseases: | Botrytis Leaf Blight, Damping-Off, Downy Mildew, Fusarium Basal Rot, Neck Rot, Onion Smut, Pink Root, Purple Blotch, Several Bacteria, White Rot. |
| Insect pests:(Insect Pest Finder) | Army Cutworm, Cutworm, Green Peach Aphid, Greenhouse Whitefly, Leafminer, Northern Mole Cricket, Onion Eelworm, Onion Maggot, Onion Thrips, Saltmarsh Caterpillar, Slugs and Snails, Spotted Cucumber Beetle, Striped Cucumber Beetle, Vegetable Weevil |
Varieties |
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| Ambition, Dutch Red, Dutch Yellow, Giant Yellow, Hative De Niort | |
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