If you want to plant them, soak them in warmish water overnight. Sunday-Tuesday are root planting days this week so you might do that tomorrow night or Sunday night and plant them Sunday or Monday. Cover with about 1” of soil, loosely packed.
Just my opinion.
Not sure about peeling the papery stuff off shallots. It might not actually matter.
You plant by the moon phase?
/johnny
I have never bothered to peel off the papery stuff from my garlic, and I have never soaked it either. It all came up just fine.
I always take the lazy way first. If it works yippe - if it doesn’t then I put in a little more effort.LOL
I may try some leeks and shallots next year. Right now I have way more things to plant than I have space for.
Lots of new varieties of heirloom stuff that I wanted to try.