alcoholic shallots/onions

[T]

Hi All,

Okay, the stalks are dying on my first ruin of shallots. Time to pick them.

Now the first dead stalk I pulled out produced four beautiful shallots (they come in fours and break apart at the root). I washed the dirt off them, and put the to dry on a rack in the garage that I dry my garlic on.

DISASTER !!! After two days, the garage stunk real bad. The shallots had turned alcoholic.

What did I do wrong? And do the same instructions apply when my potato onions are ready too?

Many thanks,

-T

[songbird]

dunno.

how hot does it get in there? maybe they cooked?

songbird

[T]

The word back from the horticulturalist at Burpee was that I harvested it too soon. I should wait at lease another months until all the foliage dies off and falls off.

This makes sense as the bulbs were not hard.