Your shallots look fine West gardener. They are a 'regular' in my veggie garden, along with onions and leeks because they are such wonderful winter keepers and pretty much stay edible from harvest in fall to planting the next spring.

That's reasuring that they look fine. Although I've read about and seen photos of shallots on the net, it is difficult to figure out what sequence they are in at any given time. When the green started falling over, I thought oh no, they are sick. It is a normal thing. When they started popping up from the soil, I thought: "what now"?.
Lol.

I've never grown them but friends have. That gives me something to add to my "to do" list. I did plant potatoes this year for the first time in years. That package of seed potatoes just hopped off the shelf into my shopping cart!

My first is an artichoke. I grew one once a long time ago in Southern California, the chokes were small and wsent to bloom, they are quite beautiful, I I think chokes toeat or pretty boom, can't lose