Life begins in the garden

Category: Experiment

  • Garlic Growing Experiment Part 1

    Why Grow Garlic? Garlic is a regular item in most of our cooking. We love the taste and it has a long list of health benefits. But we’ve not had garlic on our list of crops. Now we’ve decided to jump in with a major garlic planting of about 500 plants. Here’s the background. Many…

  • Shallot Growing Experiment Part 1

    Our first shallot experience was planting shallot bulbs purchased from the grocery store in one of our raised beds. We planted in late fall. They grew well and produced a reasonable harvest of bulbs the following summer. It was an encouraging start. The second shallot experience was again planting shallot bulbs from the grocery story…

  • Saffron Growing Experiment

    Saffron is often considered the most expensive spice. The spice comes from the stigmas of the saffron crocus flower. Each flower has 3 of these long threadlike structures. It takes around 500 of these threads to make one gram, or about 170 flowers. A kilo would take about 170,000 flowers! Growing Saffron Saffron is a…