protecting your young seedlings from frost. Alternatively, start your shallots from sets by planting hardy varieties in autumn and tender varieties in spring. The longer your sets are left to develop in the ground, the larger your bulbs will be when you harvest them ...
• Although both onions and shallots produce edible foliage, onion plants grown for scallion don’t usually produce bulbs. Shallot plants produce both scapes and bulbs. • Onions form one large, single bulb. Shallots grow in clusters of small bulbs. • Onions are typically harvested in summ...