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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
I understand that shallots are sweeter and less pungent than onions. Is this true?
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I think that is true. Many scallion and green onions are also sweeter than regular onions. I only grow the sweet kind (short day onions). To bulb properly there has to be a certain amount of daylight hours for different onions. So up north, they plant long day onions. Here, we plant short day and most short day are sweet and very mild.
Shallots are very expensive and extremely mild. My mild 1050ys (which should be HUGE onions) will make a good substitute for shallots. There aren't enough of them to bottle...I had 60 plants, but they looked pretty bad, so I barely planted...maybe half. Probably less than half. I'm glad I didn't plant/water and care for all 60 because I'd have been mighty disappointed at the waste of time and water!!!
I just gone done adding in the turkey compost. I am pretty sure I over mulched and tilled that in last winter--but it wasn't broken down enough so some spots are lacking in nutrients (dirt). Plus Turkey Compost means I won't have to bother fertilizing for at least a month.
Do you think the tomatoes will be happy enough with their turkey compost snack to turn red????