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Asked by:
Paul Lauzière
Posted at:
January 26, 2025
I was browsing through the catalogue and noticed a lot of garlic types and shallots...onions...etc are noted as PERENNIAL...You guessed right. You have to put part of the plant back into the soil after harvesting to have anything come up again next year. With shallots put back one bulb from every cluster you harvest, from garlic one clove from each cluster-or in all of them, choose the cluster that did best under your conditions and use it to replace as many of the ones you harvest as possible. The idea is that you are selecting plants that do best under your conditions and thus get a better harvest next year. But there is also the problem of constantly changing weather due to climate change and to hedge your bets it might be a good idea to keep some of as many different plants as possible in the hope that if next year the weather is quite different, some other plant will do better.
I can understand how this would work with Egyptian onions. I was wondering how it can work with shallots and garlic... if I pull up the shallot, how does it come back the next year? Do I leave part of the plant?
Please help asap as I intend to order some plants and their being perennial or not will affect my placement of them in different gardens...