too late for shallots?

[pigeonseed]

I only got a small packet of shallots and I love them so much. If I can find any more, am I too late to put them in?

The others went in in March.

[pigeonseed]

[katynewbie]

 :-\

Hope not, I have acquired some more too! Think we should just get em in, what do we have to lose?!!

;)

[cambourne7]

nope i think we have till the end of april to get them in, garden centres are still selling the plugs so i guess were ok...

[allaboutliverpool]

No it is not too late. I did not start digging my plot until 17th March last year and put my shallots on about 30th March. See the fantastic results on:-

http://www.allaboutliverpool.com/allaboutallotments_Vegetables_shallots.html

[Kea]

I hope not after 2 weeks holiday I came back to find the birds had dug up half my spring planted ones. i had to replant today.

[Jeannine]

Well mine went in abouy a month ago, I planted half and John planted half, funny I thought a coupel of weeks later, why are only my half of the bed growing....yep he had planted them upside down, I turned them over and they started they seem just a wee bit behind but not much.XX Jeannine

[pigeonseed]

That's good - anyway if it's too late for them to do much, we can just dig them out in summer, store them till next year and try again.

okay all i have to do now is find some in a shop.

mine last year were all so neglected and dry they were about the size of small peas, so I don't think i should use them to sow this year!

[norfolklass]

okay all i have to do now is find some in a shop.

if you have any of the cheap shops near to you (Poundland, Pound Stretcher, etc.) they may still have onion and shallot sets for sale, the shops in Norwich do.

[Tora]

I've only just planted my shallots (red sun) bacause I had forgotton about them completely!

My local Wilko still has red sun and golden gourmet shallots. :)

[allaboutliverpool]

I have just noticed that last years few shallots that remain are starting to sprout, so I am going to try an experiment, plant them and compare the results with the February and October plantings.

http://www.allaboutliverpool.com/allaboutallotments_Vegetables_shallots.html

[ruffmeister]

no some will say its too late but i have planted some later than this and they didn fine and turned into beatutiful picklers for the winter, its all good

[weedin project]

Bought some ½-price shallot sets yesterday evening at garden centre - for 99p it had to be worth a try.   They can go into a spare bit of our onion bed and hope for the best.

Thinking about it, at that price we should have bought more, and kept them in the kitchen for cooking with! ;D

[ruffmeister]

what garden centre was it?

[jennym]

Definitely not too late for shallots, mine have just gone in.

[mikey]

just had some given free, planted em yesterday, last year some went in in mid May and still got a good crop

[weedin project]

Ruffmeister
it was Keydell at Horndean

[pigeonseed]

I went to morden hall garden centre today which is where i got the other shallots but they all sold out in January, as soon as they'd come in. They said they managed to get a couple of extra packets from somewhere but they sold straight out as well.

maybe i should go into seed shallot production... seems to be more demand than supply.

[ruffmeister]

yes popped to wilko and found a huge bag of them so bought another lot.

[pigeonseed]

alright now you're just showing off

[flossie]

Glad to hear that it is not too late as I don't think that I have planted enough.  OH uses them for cooking and gets through tons :'(