Jackie French: Know your onions when cooking and planting shallots | The Canberra Times

The way to grow shallots is now sewing the entire bulb. They multiply like daffodils. Each of them will give 6-12 new shallots in late spring. Give them a sunny point and give them a good loose soil to make each new bulb as easy to grow as much as possible. They need to be sewn on the shortest day of the year and they are harvested for the longest period, but the shallots have a lot of gaps. As long as you put them on the ground in the next six weeks, they will be fuller and delicious. Just like an onion, they have a prominent top and bottom. They go from top to bottom, just below the soil, about 20 cm. Keep the soil moist and after planting, then you can go to the hill on a small fertilizer, then stop, or more than the bottom.