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How to grow Shallot (Golden Gourmet)
Allium cepa Aggregatum Group
🥕 Vegetable
🌱 Grown each year
Each set multiplies into a clump of mild, sweet shallots for pickling and cooking. Stores very well.
At a glance: Sow mid February to mid April, harvest from early June.
When to sow, plant and harvest
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Sow outdoors
Harvest
Timed for a typical UK garden (last frost mid-April). The app uses your own town's frost dates.
Growing Shallot (Golden Gourmet): what it needs
- Light
- Full sun · 6+ hours a day
- Watering
- Water in dry spells, especially as crops swell
- Soil
- Firm, well-drained soil
- Spacing
- 15 cm
- In pots
- Only in large containers
- Feeding
- A general fertiliser before planting
- Harvest
- About 110 days from sowing
- Hardiness
- USDA zones 3–9
Step by step
- Mid February – mid April · 9 weeks before the last spring frost
Plant Sets
Plant sets 15 cm apart in rows.
- 14–28 days after “Plant Sets” · Late February – mid March
Look for Shoots
Green shoots should be showing. Keep weeds down — these crops hate competition.
- 21–35 days after “Look for Shoots” · Late March – early April
Weed and Water
Hoe off weeds between rows and water in dry spells — even moisture gives better crops.
- 110–140 days after “Plant Sets” · Early June – early July
Harvest
Lift when foliage turns yellow in midsummer.
- 7–21 days after “Harvest” · Mid June – late June
Dry and Store
Separate the bulbs, dry for 2 weeks, then store in nets.
