Garden Archives - Greg.Randall https://gregr.org/category/garden/ Mon, 08 Feb 2021 19:35:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://gregr.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-gr-1-32x32.png Garden Archives - Greg.Randall https://gregr.org/category/garden/ 32 32 Home Grown Corn https://gregr.org/home-grown-corn/ Mon, 14 Oct 2019 20:45:37 +0000 http://gregr.org/?p=184 Sarah and I tried to grow corn this year in a 3 sisters setup. The squash was completely destroyed by squash borers, and then the beans pulled all the corn over. At least we got a bunch of beans. As the beans have begun to lose their leaves we found two tiny dent corn cobs. […]

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]]> Sarah and I tried to grow corn this year in a 3 sisters setup. The squash was completely destroyed by squash borers, and then the beans pulled all the corn over. At least we got a bunch of beans.

As the beans have begun to lose their leaves we found two tiny dent corn cobs.

Dent Corn

I don’t really have a good way to grind corn, but I found one of the measuring cups fit the immersion blender almost exactly.

After a fair number of grindings and siftings I was left with a little cup of cornmeal. I hope to make one beautiful corn muffin.

Cornmeal

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]]> Saffron Bulbs https://gregr.org/saffron-bulbs/ Tue, 01 Oct 2019 13:30:20 +0000 http://gregr.org/?p=155 Sarah and I planted 100 saffron bulbs. We’re hoping to have at least a small saffron crop this year, though, it’s hard to say how much we’ll get. We laid out the bulbs on the surface of the soil to make sure they’d all fit. I followed spacing information from the information sheet that came […]

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]]> Sarah and I planted 100 saffron bulbs. We’re hoping to have at least a small saffron crop this year, though, it’s hard to say how much we’ll get.

Sarah Planting Bulbs

We laid out the bulbs on the surface of the soil to make sure they’d all fit. I followed spacing information from the information sheet that came with the bulbs.

Saffron bulbs ready to be pushed under the dirt.

The bulbs are supposed to flower this fall, which seems pretty surprising– we just planted them a couple weeks back.

I’ll make another post when we get to the harvest. Briefly, it looks like you cut the flowers off, pull the three stamen from each flower, and then gently dry the stamens. The foliage left is allowed to stay on the plant as long as it lasts.

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