Autumn planting shallots

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I usually plant garlic at this time of the year, in the middle of preparing the bed. I've decided to try-out shallots (Jermor) for the first time. Garlic usually does OK, can I assume shallots will do so as well, they'll both be in the same conditions? Is there anything in particular I should do or watch out for?

We planted Jermor last year around the end of October and I have saved some of the smaller ones to plant this year.
We put them in to our new allotment so had no idea really of the soil etc but they grew really well. Not much happened til Spring but we got a really good harvest and they store and cook well. No issues with them at all. They did much better than our garlic actually. Also, Senshyu onions planted in the Autumn did very well too.
I did put a net over them as we have squirrels but I dont know if they bother with shallots.

I grow my shallots from seed. I start them in January and normally end up with a really good harvest of good sized individual shallots. Variety is Zebrune, a banana shallot. They really do end up looking like the pictures.