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Seed packet from Winnow Farm with branding and product details on a textured background
  • Seed packet from Winnow Farm with branding and product details on a textured background
  • Hand holding a bundle of pink shallots with a garden background
  • Seed packet from Winnow Farm with branding and product details on a textured background
  • Hand holding a bundle of pink shallots with a garden background
Banana Shallot 'Cuisse de Poulet du Poitou'

Banana Shallot 'Cuisse de Poulet du Poitou'

£2.25

From our friends at Winnow Farm Seeds comes Cuisse de Poulet du Poitou, a classic French banana shallot with bags of savoury-sweet flavour. Mild enough to enjoy raw in dressings and salads, it truly comes into its own when cooked low and slow, melting into dishes with a rich, rounded sweetness. The elongated bulbs grow to around onion size, delivering all the depth of a shallot without the fiddly peeling.

They produce elegant, tapered bulbs wrapped in a beautiful rusty-rose skin. Harvest early and you can enjoy the tender green stems as well as the bulbs; leave them longer and the flavour deepens, becoming more robust and aromatic. Once lifted, simply dry the bulbs thoroughly and they’ll store happily through winter, making this a generous, versatile crop that earns its place in both garden and kitchen.

Sow: multi-sow 3-5 seeds per module, March undercover
Plant: 20cm spacing between modules
Harvest: July-August

Winnow Farm Seeds are a small seed farm and seed company based in Dorset. They focus on great quality seeds that are tested to thrive in the British climate. Their varieties are chosen for their great taste and are all open pollinated varieties with no F1 hybrids.

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