We just bought a packet of shallot seeds ,we grew onions this year from seed, we were very impressed with them,has anyone out there done the shallots from seed?
Been impressed wioth my Prisma this eyar and will grow again next year.... not very impressed with Banana though..... Prisma has set individual decently sized shallots bullet hard and of excellent quality and also seems to have shown some resistance to white rot (mabe wishful thinking on my part, but really not seen it and the SY300's next to them were devastated....)
Banana didn't germinate well, and seems to ahve suffered badly from the WR.... it'll get another chance next year on clean soil...
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Must try Prisma next year. I grew Ambition (Unwins) this year, not many seeds in the packet but a fabulous crop of rock hard golf ball sized bulbs.
Last year grew T&M's Banana and they were fab too, this year did Long Red Florence and although they have done well overall, the bulb size is a bit variable.
The Ambition were grown in compost 12 cm deep in a shallow pot and got watered well and a bit of tomato food too. They were very crowded but after I pulled them and tipped out the pot, it was a mass of roots - amazing that the shallots did so well and no soil born disease of course. Definitely worth a go if you have some pots lying around.
Do seed-grown shallot varieties have to be propagated by seed, or can they be grown like traditional shallots, from offsets?
Seed grown shallots usually form one bulb only before the season ends. If you replanted, I believe that they would behave like a set and grow offsets.