I love, love, LOVE Shallots. I have a small patch of them for now...
Last year ‘the project’ was putting in a 40’ row of asparagus. This fall it’s going to be a 40’ row of garlic, and I’ll add some shallots in there each spring, for sure!
Little by little I’m making our ‘farmette’ functional, beautiful and am growing plenty extra to sell, so she can continue to be functional and beautiful. :)
Years ago, I brought one or two bunches of dry shallot bulbs home from the farm and planted them in my small garden. Every year I would pull the entire bunches out and break into separate plants and stick them back into the ground again.
During the summer, I would pull an entire bunch when there were about 12 or 15 individual stalks for eating. I gave away bunches of shallots every year. Late in the year, I would take two or three plants and let them air dry for fall planting.