Onion, shallot and garlic collection
Allium cepa (onions 'Shakespeare' and 'Akado'), shallots 'Griselle' and 'Longor', and Allium sativum (garlic 'Cledor' and 'Germidour')
An autumn-planting collection: 250g each of two onions ('Shakespeare', a brown, and 'Akado', a red), 250g each of two shallots ('Griselle', a grey, and 'Longor', a long French type) and four bulbs of garlic (two each of 'Cledor' and 'Germidour', both softnecks).
Into the new veg bed went about ten of each onion, about five of each shallot and one bulb of each garlic, split into cloves, all in rows with the tips just showing. The rest is being kept for containers and the allotment, since there isn't a second bed ready yet.
- Common name
- Onion, shallot and garlic collection
- Section
- Beds (also in Fruit, veg & herbs)
- Spot
- Garden (veg bed)
- Soil
- Last year's container-bed soil, dug over, with a layer of compost on top
- Options
Potential
A summer's worth of onions, shallots and garlic, with more to follow from containers and the allotment.
- From
- An online retailer (autumn planting collection), Oct 2026
- Age
- Sets and cloves, planted October 2026
- Next repot
- Not needed: it's in the ground
- Edible
- ✅ Yes: Onions, shallots and garlic, from next summer.
- Hardy
- ✅ Fully
- Garden-centre price
- Counted at harvest
Did you know?
Ramesses IV was buried with onions in his eye sockets. Nobody is entirely sure why.
Care & updates
- What to expect
- Roots before winter and green shoots by spring. Garlic and shallots are usually ready from early summer, the onions from July.
- Feeding
- Every 28 days, Mar–May, with General-purpose feed
- Planted
About ten of each onion, about five of each shallot and one bulb of each garlic (split into cloves) planted in rows in the new veg bed. Watered in and netted. The rest kept back for containers and the allotment.
- Observation
Varieties confirmed from the invoice.
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Plant in rows, water, wait. The whole game, and also the whole plan.
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