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Autumn
September
October, usually harvesting
November
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Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 5 years ago 2021-08-27

Progress

unknown no finish predicted

Quantity

27 bulbs

Grown in

semi-shade

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Bulb

Perennial

keeps growing year to year

Weather in salt spring island New

We're fetching and calculating the weather history for this planting. It's collected overnight and runs about five days behind, so the first days of a new planting appear a few days after it's planted.

Notes

planted in bed closest to house, where the apricot was

Photos

No photos yet.

No frost reached this saffron planting

Frost was possible until 21 May. We have no night temperatures for this saffron planting. The saffron planting went in on 27 Aug, 254 days before the usual last frost (8 May).

This saffron planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Frost danger it grew through
155 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 21 May
Usual last frost
8 May
planted 254 days before it

Experimental: this feature is new and might be flaky. These dates are estimates from 25 km weather-model data, not readings from a station at your garden, so a cold spot can be colder. They may be wrong, so check your national weather service and ask local growers before relying on them.

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0)

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Crop

Photo of saffron

Saffron

Crocus sativus

  • 3 plantings
  • 1 harvest
  • A perennial
  • First harvest about 400 days after planting

World neighbours

Other saffron plantings at the same latitude.