Ed Stuart said:

What is the difference in taste?

None that I could really tell. I grew shallots once from seeds and several
times from sets. I suspect that there might be more difference between
the same type of shallot grown in different soils than there would be between
the different types grown in the same soil.

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Pat in Plymouth MI ('someplace.net' is comcast)

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