You are a beginner farmer and you are interested of what is shallot, then you can be sure after you read the article you get to know. There is one onion in a large onion family that is very useful and valuable form of onions - shallots, which are valued for a good yield, earliness, good taste and ability to be stored for a long time in the room, he had virtually no direction.

It also has many other names: many nested, familial. These names have appeared because the shallots in one nest have a large number of bulbs. They are smaller than that of onions, but differ from their larger brethren the most exquisite taste and ability to be stored in the house all winter without losing its trademark qualities. Bundle, a braid of shallots can be hung in the kitchen: the winter decoration and onions are always at hand. Another important quality of shallots - a feather in his more subtle and gentle that does not coarsens during the whole vegetation season. Yes, and it appears much earlier than that of onion.

Our gardens shallot is a rare visitor. In Western Europe and Scandinavia, this bow is very valuable for very sweet taste and higher than that of onions, medicinal properties. Many varieties of shallots. There are white, red, purple, yellow, brown and shape of bulbs - elongated, rounded, rounded-flat, depending on variety. Before you start planting shallots, pre-cook a flower bed and the day before landing prepare for planting. To shallots grown large, onion shallots divide into several parts. Cut off the top and on the "eyes" cut into several pieces. From 1 onion turns 8.3 seating units. Planted in early April in prepared furrows at a distance of 15-16 cm in a row and 30 cm between rows.

Unlike onions shallots can be planted in autumn, as winter garlic. Then he is ready for harvest in 10-15 days earlier than spring planting. This is another positive quality shallot, allowing it to grow in the northern areas. When the leaf begins dry, rake away the land to the bulb were on the surface.
If the weather allows, after the harvest is dried onions in the garden. Finally dried onions under the awning. When the entire leaf dries up, to fly from the bow-make bundles of braids. In this form it is perfectly stored until spring.