Topic: yellowing shallots...

[mat]

All my shallot leaves (about 72 plants) are starting to yellow at the tops of ther tips (about top 1-2") 

They were only planted 10 weeks ago; the leaves are very tall, they have all split into many bulbs, are growing fantastically well, but are no where near ready for the tops to die down yet...

Do I need to add fertiliser or do I not need to worry about the yellowing?

I will take my camera tomorrow or the weekend and will try and get a shot...

Thanks
mat

[tim]

Can't figure it - not happy about it. Yet the garlic is still fine. Little of the yellowing so many other folk showed earlier.

[Robert_Brenchley]

Glad you're back, Tim; I hope everything's OK. Mine is yellowing as well, it may just be the peculiar season we've been having.

[growmore]

I think you may find they are getting ready for ripening .I stagger mine, heres some that were planted in early march...They have finished growing early this year..These had popped out of midle of clump..I hope the later ones are going to be bigger



some from  same row...




cheers ..jim

[katynewbie]

 ;D

phew! mine are yellowing too, thought i had done something bad by default!

Guess they must be nearly ready then...Yaaaaaaaaay!!!

 ;)

[Robert_Brenchley]

That's rather what I though, but I haven't grown them for years.

[powerspade]

I have grown shallots for years and this year my shallots are also yellowing , I dont think its because they are nearly ready for harvest because they have only been in since April and the leaves are only aboput 4" tall, I dont know whats gone wrong perhaps the ground was too cold when planted?
PS the same thing is happening to my spuds

[mat]

Phew, thanks guys; sounds like I am not alone  :)  It's my first year, so I was a bit worried. 

They went in the first week April and are over 12" tall, so I was hoping they were not growing too quickly and about to bolt!

mat

[tim]

Mine are nowhere near ready. Put in 18/2.

[Robert_Brenchley]

mine went in in December, and scraping around, they didn't seem to have too much in the way of bulbs yet. I hope they'll go a while yet. My overwintering onions are beginning to keel over, but some of them (the ones I planted first) are nice. Others were planted too late and didn't do much.

[growmore]

I grow a lot of shallots ..staggering time I plant them..
I have lots popping out of middle of clumps .. this took today these have been in  14 weeks..   




Cheers Jim....

[amphibian]

Mine are yellowing, much is this year.

Tim, mine are not ready either and went in ages ago.

[mat]

okay, update.  I watered them all a LOT, and they are now looking a lot better  ;D 

they went in at the beginning of april, are actually about 24" tall already and almost all have split into many bulbs.

mat