20
to 30 "cloves" per bulb-a small, strong-flavored, vigorously-multiplying
light-purple shallot with copper-colored skins, from the Tohono
O'odham Indians of southern Arizona and adjacent portions of Mexico.
(The O'odham are also known as the Pima, which, so I have heard,
means "I don't know"-the answer they gave to Europeans asking
them who they were in unintelligible languages.) For a desert
variety it has done very well here, the approximately 75 single
garlic-clove sized shallots I planted yielding 11 pounds the
next
summer. (My four biggest bulbs, each originating from a single
shallot, weighed in at almost 2 pounds just on their own.) Tohono
O'odham I'itoi's is being grown organically but is not certified
as such, like the garlic. Plant and grow similarly to garlic
(see
Kaskaskia Red, above).
SORRY--UNAVAILABLE
THIS YEAR--MUST RE-BUILD SEED STOCK
