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    Saffron

    Planted some last year but didn’t do much. Today surprised to see a solitary flower and duly harvested.



    Plenty of other plants with leaves, hopefully flowers will follow. Anyone else grown some?

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    I was going to say "it's worth its weight in gold" but probably more!

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    Wow had never thought of trying that.

    Any special greenhouse / heat Mat?

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    Excellent, well done that man.

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    Paella time! Good work.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mj2k View Post
    Wow had never thought of trying that.

    Any special greenhouse / heat Mat?
    No, grows outside fine.

    Saffron Walden in Essex so named because was the centre of a medieval growing industry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kingstepper View Post
    No, grows outside fine.

    Saffron Walden in Essex so named because was the centre of a medieval growing industry.
    I use quite a lot in my cooking, had never bothered to research, but this is extremely interesting. Thank you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kingstepper View Post
    No, grows outside fine.

    Saffron Walden in Essex so named because was the centre of a medieval growing industry.
    We were Cheyping (Chipping or market) Walden before about 1540 and wool had been the mainstay, the saffron industry collapsed at the end of the 18th C and barley & malting took over. There is now a commercial grower of saffron in Walden again (well, quite near) https://www.englishsaffron.co.uk no connection and it looks like a schoolchild designed their website some 20 years ago :-)

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    Genuinely did not know it was a traditional UK grown product.

    Wow at the website though!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mj2k View Post
    Genuinely did not know it was a traditional UK grown product.

    Wow at the website though!
    As you may have guessed from Kingstepper’s original post it’s an autumn flowering plant (crocus) and is quite a bit bigger than the spring varieties. I must admit I’ve not tried growing it myself but then I do have brown thumbs in that I have been known to kill a spider plant. I normally restock on trips to Spain where it is somewhat cheaper than here, mind you with the recent travel restrictions maybe I should plant up a pot or two.
    Sorry to the OP for hijacking, I hope the rest of his crop comes along as well as this example

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