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Tag: herb

  • What’s Growing Now – October 2022

    Our weather has cooled off with night temperatures into the 40’s (under 10 Celsius) and pleasantly warm days in the 70’s (low 20’s Celsius). Summer vegetables are slowing down and it is time for a transition to cool season winter crops. Harvesting Now Winter Squash has been harvested with about 20 pounds of mostly Kabocha…

  • 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…