
Vegetables Β· Cool
Shallot
Amaryllidaceae
At a glance
- Plant spacing
- 20 cm
- USDA zones
- 3aβ9b
- Frost-sensitive
- no
- Growth duration
- 18 weeks
Which beds suit?
- Sun (prefers)
- full sunAlso okay:partial shade
- Soil (prefers)
- sandyAlso okay:loamyraised-bed mix
- Drainage (prefers)
- very free-drainingAlso okay:normal
Seed & start
Pre-culture recommended
Start indoors / cold frame first, transplant into the raised bed later.
Stachi's tip
Shallots are onion aristocrats: finer flavour, slightly pricier sets. Plant like onions (March/April), harvest August. One 'mother bulb' becomes 4-8 daughter bulbs.
Sowing
No sowing weeks recorded.
Transplanting
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Harvest
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Good neighbours
Avoid these neighbours
Good pre-cultures
Stachi has no specific pre-cultures recorded.
Sources
- LLM-Baseline+gpt-5-review
- LLM-Baseline-Intercrop
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-09 yieldKg
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 family-zehrer
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 sun-soil-drainage