Don’t Wait Too Long—When to Harvest Shallots for the Freshest Flavor

Don’t Wait Too Long—When to Harvest Shallots for the Freshest Flavor

​The Spruce / K. Dave Shallots are mild, aromatic members of the onion family, usually planted in autumn as single cloves to produce the largest shallots. They are a multiplier vegetable, similar to potatoes. From one shallot clove, you'll harvest from four up to a dozen new shallots. This allium can also be grown from seed; however, each seed produces only one shallot, and seeds need to be started indoors eight to ten weeks before the final fro…