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Sean Straw wrote:

On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:34:48 -0400, Ecnerwal
wrote:

Got peas poking up and lettuce/spinach seedlings out in the garden. Will
be planting the "shallots from seed" into the cold frame Saturday,

Elaborate - actual seed, or starts?


These are the shallots (or "shallots") that are grown from actual seed -
hybrid, Dutch seed, I think from a bit of my follow-on reading - variety
is "Ambition" (there are others, but that's the one the place I was
buying seed from had). Storage life is supposed to be good, some folks
like the flavor, some think it's not true shallot flavor, and they are
evidently not really usable for sets. Trying for the first time this
year so I can't actually report on the flavor yet.

100-pack had ~108 seeds, germination above 90%, got them planted 5 to a
1-3/4" block as a "multiplant" (ie, I'll just plant the blocks as is on
a wider spacing.) I'm also experimenting with soil blocking this year
without spending money on it, and that non-standard size what my "scrap
materials crude block press" puts out.

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