Onion Shallots

Shallot gives early maturing delicate, fragrant herbs and well stored medium-sized bulbs . Shallots rich in iron salts, potassium, calcium, B vitamins, found in green lot of vitamin C, carotene . Thanksits precocity and keeping quality, shallots are in great demand in the summer . It differs from onion highly branched and small bulbs, which are very well kept . Plants shallots resemble onions: tubular leaves, narrow, awl-shaped, length 20 - 40 cm, dark green . However, shallots different intensivebranching . This is a biennial plant at sowing seeds in the first year of forming a small rosette of leaves (feathers), and a nest of 5 - 10 bulbs (weight - 20 - 25 g), and for planting bulbs in the nest their number can reach 20 - 30 with a total weight of 400 - 500 . The bulbs are of different shapes - from round to oblong weighing from 8 to 50 g . Coating of dry scalespurple, white or yellow in different shades . bulbs multi-germinal, frost, freezing and thawing can, keeping the ability to regrowth .