Grandma Garber has been growing
saffron for years. This summer, she gave me a brown paper bag full of the bulbs, with clear instructions to plant them at the end of July or beginning of August. Mental note to self:
August...
I kept them in the sunroom for awhile and soon moved the bag to a shelf next to some books, and a bunch of dried herbs, teas, and seeds for next year.
Today is the 19th of November. I pulled out the bag, looking for a sweet jar to store my mint and realized that I had a bag full of beautiful purple flowers!! Tangled throughout their stems I found a piece of paper with Grandma's instructions. Ooops!
each flower has 3 red stamens that get taken off and dried
the bag of bulbs, after I cut all the flowers off:
You can see why saffron is so expensive - it is a tedious process that produces a very small yield!
1 comment:
Tonight I found out that mine did the exact same thing! Crazyness! How did they grow inside bag?
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