[Salmo]

Shallots should be about golf ball size. Sometimes bigger, sometimes smaller.

Spring planted onions from sets grow bigger if you plant them at 8 inch spacing, smaller at 3 inch spacing. They do not all follow the rules.

Onion sets need to be planted early to get big onions, the end of March is about right. Much sooner and they bolt, much later and they have not got time to produce a big plant by the Summer solstice when the days start to get shorter.

Onions grow leaves until now when the shortening days trigger a switch to bulking up the bulb. If the plant is small at that point they will only produce a small bulb.

[Aled]

I think I'm in with a chance of getting them to Golf ball size, which is good. Thanks for the advice Salmo.
Cheers
Aled

[arh]

Thank you for that info Salmo. On the subject of shallot size, do you know of a variety that produces small, as in, up to golf ball size, I obtained my shallots from Wilco's this year, sold as "Shallots", and they grew to be huge, the smallest is golf ball size, and the biggest was about 3" in diameter. Too big for me to pickle,  . Preferably about one inch and a half in old money, (35mm - 40mm).