This week I pulled up the shallots that I planted back in
June. I lost one third of them to aphids that I tried to get rid of with
water jets,
soap spray and
tomato leaf spray; but nothing helped. I'm very happy with
the harvest I got from the rest of them though. I originally planted 10 white
shallots and 10 red shallots and I've now got 40 in total! It could have been
bigger but doubling my original output is still pretty good.
I wasn't entirely sure when I was supposed to harvest
them as I read two conflicting times; before flowering and after the leaves had
died and dried up. Half of them were about to flower and none of them looked
like drying up any time soon. After pondering for 2 days I decided to pull them
up even though the leaves hadn't dried up. They've been in the garage for a
week now; and they look fine so I think I did the right thing.
