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How I Grow The Worlds Most Expensive Spice at Home, Saffron Crocus
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How to grow Saffron, the most expensive spice in the world. Planting Saffron Corms (bulbs), harvesting, drying, Saffron is the most expensive spice for good reason, but growing your own saffron and processing enough for a years supply is pretty easy.
Standard gear I recommend. I either use or have used all of it.
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Saffron is the most expensive spice in the world. How much does saffron cost? thousands of dollars a pound! However, it is relatively easy to grow, and since it is very potent and only a small amount is needed in cooking, it is easy to grow and process your own in your garden or homestead. Just don't try to grow saffron for profit unless you like long hours and low profits!
Saffron crocus, crocus sativa, is a small blue flower that blooms in the fall and grows during the winter. Each flower contains only 3 small red saffron threads, which are the female pollen receptacles. The threads are plucked by hand and dried to make the spice saffron, which is also used to dye cloth and give food a yellow color. It has a distinctive flavor as well as being used for traditional medicine. It is used to treat cancer and cardiovascular disease and depression.
Saffron is a corm, not a bulb. To properly plant saffron, the corms are planted in the early fall or late summer. They are eaten by gophers, voles, squirrels and other rodents. Planting in raised containers or wire lined beds can help deter rodents. After the flowers bloom, they will grow through the winter gathering energy for the following year's bloom. Growing your own saffron is easy. The corms are not the cheapest, but they multiply exponentially, so if you buy just 20 to 40, you'll have a lot of plants soon enough. A bed about 4 x 6 is a good size to shoot for if you are a moderate user. The corms should be divided every few years. They reproduce quickly by dividing underground.
Most saffron is grown in the middle east and Mediterranean, like Iran, Afghanistan and Spain but the plant is fairly widely adapted and cold tolerant.
See also the National Geographic Article, "The Secret History of the Worlds Priciest Spice"
Standard gear I recommend. I either use or have used all of it.
BOOKS:
Instagram and Facebook @SkillCult
Saffron is the most expensive spice in the world. How much does saffron cost? thousands of dollars a pound! However, it is relatively easy to grow, and since it is very potent and only a small amount is needed in cooking, it is easy to grow and process your own in your garden or homestead. Just don't try to grow saffron for profit unless you like long hours and low profits!
Saffron crocus, crocus sativa, is a small blue flower that blooms in the fall and grows during the winter. Each flower contains only 3 small red saffron threads, which are the female pollen receptacles. The threads are plucked by hand and dried to make the spice saffron, which is also used to dye cloth and give food a yellow color. It has a distinctive flavor as well as being used for traditional medicine. It is used to treat cancer and cardiovascular disease and depression.
Saffron is a corm, not a bulb. To properly plant saffron, the corms are planted in the early fall or late summer. They are eaten by gophers, voles, squirrels and other rodents. Planting in raised containers or wire lined beds can help deter rodents. After the flowers bloom, they will grow through the winter gathering energy for the following year's bloom. Growing your own saffron is easy. The corms are not the cheapest, but they multiply exponentially, so if you buy just 20 to 40, you'll have a lot of plants soon enough. A bed about 4 x 6 is a good size to shoot for if you are a moderate user. The corms should be divided every few years. They reproduce quickly by dividing underground.
Most saffron is grown in the middle east and Mediterranean, like Iran, Afghanistan and Spain but the plant is fairly widely adapted and cold tolerant.
See also the National Geographic Article, "The Secret History of the Worlds Priciest Spice"
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