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Nero Shallot

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Copper skin. F-1 hybrid.

Long-day traditional bunching shallot. Copper skin covering teardrop-shaped bulbs with sweet fragrant melting shallot goodness.

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② Family-owned companies or cooperatives, domestic and foreign
ships in spring
Quick Details
Hybrid Status
F-1 hybrid
Skin Color
copper
Lifecycle
biennial grown as an annual
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ECO 		seeds open pollinated golden bronze biennial grown as an annual
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Organic 		seeds open pollinated rosy bronze biennial grown as an annual
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Organic 		seeds open pollinated red biennial grown as an annual
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Nero sets F-1 hybrid copper biennial grown as an annual
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Additional Information

Sets

Approx. 100-130 onion sets per pound; 80-100 shallot sets per pound.

Sets ship from our warehouse during our regular potato shipping season in April.

Shallots

The sweetest and mildest member of the onion family, important in Asian, Persian and French cuisines.

Growing Shallots

Most of our sets are long-day varieties, suitable for northern growers. All other factors being equal, alliums grown from seedlings will grow bigger and resist disease better than those grown from sets.

  • Planting: Shallots are day-length sensitive—to produce large bulbs, plant in spring as soon as soil is workable. Shallow rooted, onions and shallots require rich weed-free soil and consistent water.
    • Seedlings: Set 4–6" apart in trenches in well-dug beds with generous quantities of organic matter. Avoid transplanting next to grass strips; slugs love to dine on tiny allium seedlings. Irrigate seedlings whenever the topsoil dries out.
    • Sets: Plant 3" apart in rows 1' apart. Thin to 6" apart as they grow (or plant them 4–6" apart if you don’t want to thin).
  • Growing: Mulch when they are 1' tall. During the season, pull any plants that begin to bolt and use them as scallions. It’s a good idea to sidedress once or twice a season, especially close to summer solstice.
  • Harvest and Storage: Clean and grade before storage. Ideal storage conditions are temperatures at 32˚ with humidity of 60–70%. If you can’t do that, work to get a total number of 100. For example, at temperatures from 50–55˚, humidity should be 45–50%.

Shipping

For orders placed by February 20, 2026, this item will ship on our regular shipping schedule, starting in late March with the warmest states and finishing by early May. Orders placed after February 20, 2026 will be shipped later, and in the order in which they were received. We cannot ship this item any earlier; we regret that we cannot honor any requests to do so.