SEED STORIES | Zebrune Shallot: Quintessentially French!

[beerbread]

I enjoy Food Stories so much, they bring a deeper understanding of what I eat and how food travels. At 71 I've seen foods appear (quinoa) and disappear (Hubbard squash) in my grocery store. My grandmother, coming from a 19th century N. European food landscape and raising children during the Depression, would be gobsmacked. I am too! Thankful for generations of seed savers and home gardeners who have paid it forward. Thankful for Baker Creek. 🌱

[danennis]

You guys make me want to grow everything.

[susansink]

This is my first year growing zebrune shallots from seed. Usually I get shallot sets (so pricey!) Also, it is the year of pandemic, and so I love the connection to he French fleeing Nazi occupation and planting them. As the Victory Gardens are returning, so, too, I'll have my zebrune shallots planted in a time of crisis.

[redblackgreenvegan]

I am a new lover of shallots, thanks for furthering my overstanding of this beautiful plant!

[Maiasatara]

Excited for you to return online next week (if all goes as expected.) I know so many more people will want to start growing now but I’m just continuing the gift my grandparents gave me - the joy of walking down to the garden to pick what we need for dinner. ♥️

[theroostergardenandcityhom]

I look forward to all these videos now. Keep them coming. Thanks from Benton, Arkansas

[TalkingThreadsMedia]

11/25/2019 -- Oh my gosh... just heard through Mike Dickson of the FARM FIT channel, that Jere Gettle (one of the owners of BAKER CREEK HEIRLOOM SEED COMPANY) fell on the ice last week and broke his hip. Jere, you are in my prayers for healing and recovery! Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA.

[ogadlogadl]

Everyone please remember to give a thumbs up for these nicely presented videos!! Giving a “thumbs up” helps the YouTube algorithm understand that we enjoy this content and then will hopefully place these videos in others video feeds. Thus by us thumbs upping we can hopefully get more people interested in growing rare and wonderful items from Baker Creek. Just by a simple action we can try to help contribute to saving plant species!

[janicealderson]

Can i sow them now in September - do they overwinter i have the cuisse de poulet type?

[orchidjewels]

Why have my Zebrune Shallots had a very poor germination rate? My other onions and leeks germinated very well. I only ended up with about 10 shallots plants out of an entire package.

[WillWilsonII]

I just ordered Wild Zaatar and Red Freddy Basil. I shoulda ordered these too!

[sowertosow]

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
1 Corinthians 10:31 KJV

[solarbeau]

First, Zebrune is an onion, not a shallot. It's a great onion, with a mild taste and it stores very well. It's bigger than a shallot and it's produced by seeds because it makes seedling like an onion. Why English speaker call it a shallot ? I don't know, probably for marketing.
2nd mistake you've made is about griselle which is a gray shallot not a red shallot 1:36, you say it afterwards that it's a gray shallot, so it can't be red and it isn't. Red shallot is a different specie and you showed a wrong picture of small red onions, standard shallot color is copper, not red, there is variety that is pretty red but it's a polish one and it's round.
Actually 1:35 you can see in the market farmer stand, up left and down left what looks a gray shallot, all the other variety on the table are copper shallots and the white stuff middle left I don't know what it is.