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Squirrels have wreaked HAVOC on my garden this year. Fortunately, they are easy to exclude if you really set your mind to it. I have created several planters that are now squirrel-proof, and my Fall garden is thriving. Rats are still a menace tho, and they are so much harder to control. I am sure this trick will work for you. Make sure to plant the seedlings as soon as you see the tiniest little tails emerging! Good luck! And btw, you can skip the freezer step, may take a day longer just on your kitchen counter. They should germinate in 4 days flat!

I am getting at least 2 more at the Black Friday sale, they are awesome

I made the tubes of my drip irrigation a bit longer so that I can spin them back and forth without taking them out...though I can if I need to.

Hmm, the taste of saffron is subtle but obvious and to me absolutely delicious. I use it not just in rice dishes but also in sweet dishes. It is a delicate but unmistakable, and very flavorful! But different people would feel differently, I understand!

Thanks so much for your detailed account of your saffron growing experience. It was pretty fascinating, and good to know that you had many of the similar experiences that I did. So it does take between 4 to 6 weeks from the time you see the first green, for the flowers to actually appear. I am very surprised that you are seeing saffron corms sprout so late in the year. I would normally not expect that you would get any blooms with the weather having cooled off so much. I usually trigger saffron's growth by manually watering round about the September time frame. But would love to know more about your experience as it develops. Thanks again for checking in!

That's fantastic, thanks so much!! Glad you found the video helpful!

You are probably right!

@@Ambroise1268 Yes you can certainly do that to see the water level in the area. Have not experimented too much with water meters for distance. I would imagine that a papaya is super thirsty and ollas might not be enough, But they could supplement additional needs.

So glad you found it helpful! Thanks for leaving a thoughtful comment 💚

@@lilycardoso4679 yeh, sorry, it's been so busy! But yes it's a great time to start lettuce if you live in a milder climate. You can actually start outdoors, or you can start it in your greenhouse they'll grow faster and then move it outdoors. It's a bit early for tomatoes, but if you've got a heated greenhouse, you can definitely grow them!

@@alejandrorobles6865 Thanks, probably my best worm tip to date!!!☺️

Thanks! And so sorry, I do not know the answer to your question 😔

@@GingerfootGarden yes, And I really hope I can keep this particular stock going year-over-year, and have it adapt to my climate!

From what I understand, moles only eat grubs, not plants. Voles on the other hand are cute little monsters that eat plants!

Check regularly, white flies are nasty and multiply quickly

@ Any solution! Thank you

@lalithaganesan3372 What you did is good, You might have to repeat every couple of weeks

@@GreenLove1 sure thank you for your prompt response 😀

Depends on the weather, on hot dry days, it's more frequent. Also depends on the some of the olla. Check out my full length video linked in the Short above

Haha, too funny!!! That's a whipped cream cheese topping.

It has definitely been one of my favorite purchases. That and the GreenStalks!!

Look up Sour Dough Cinnamon Rolls by The Clever Carrot. I followed her recipe exactly!

Lol, I feel the one I have is not big enough either, But I don't think I will be satisfied even if I go bigger!!

@@jeanlee9569 how awesome is that! The miracle of Nature!!

Great question, actually! If you are concerned about the dirt and grime that might flow from the rooftop, the advice is usually to empty out the first barrel that fills up after a long dry spell. After that, the water should be clean enough to use to water your plants! At least, I do feel good about it!

you don't drink it right out of the barrel! you still filter and boil it

I never drink it, lol, it's just for my plants. But if I did need to drink it, I definitely would filter, boil, filter!!!

@@forgotmypassword125 depends on how complex you want to make it, but you can do a lot of things to keep the water cleanish. Here are the ones I'm familiar with. 1) A dirt diverter. Basically a Y junction with a long length of pipe. Since the roof is feeding the barrel, anything on the roof at the beginning of the rain will be swept into the barrel. The diverter collects this dirty water with muck in it through gravity. Once it fills up, less debris strewn water goes into barrel. You uncap the diverter to flush the water out and reset. 2) Specific coating on the barrel. To keep out UV light (stops algae from reproducing) to a black exterior that helps heat up the water and helps reduce microbe reproduction. 3) In barrel filters. Usually a mixture of sand and carbon. 4) Filter barrels. You use multiple barrels with filters in them that gravity feeds them down the line to get increasingly clean water. 5) Chemicals. Just dump in some chlorine or bleach. Of course for plant watering you'll want to make sure you don't overdue it and kill the plants. You can actually reverse some of this once the water has been purified (chlorine I think) where you leave out the water and either let it off-gas or get hit with UV light, one of the two breaks it down. Overall for just watering the garden, you don't necessarily need to go overboard, just enough to keep bacteria and algae blooms from poisoning the water. Definitely add mechanical debris separators though, this will help your equipment from getting gummed up and increasing its lifespan.

​@@Donkringelthanks so much for the fantastic, and thoughtfully written tips. I am going to pin you comment so others can be edit from learning too!

Thanks, Lannie! Those metal raised beds are my new love!!

@ I hear you!

Aw, so sad to hear about the misfortunes you've been having, yep, every critter loves saffron corms, love to of good nutrition for them, ugh. Hope next season is better 🤞

You are so welcome!!! I am certainly giving away a few too!!!

I had lots of issues with aphids, to the point that I pulled out all my plants from the greenstalk and planted them elsewhere. I also found that because I was watering too much, the berries were tasteless. Giving it another shot to see whether I have better luck this time.

@@gannas42 saffron is hardy in zone 5, however you will need to give it some winter protection like a thick layer of mulch, or plant in containers and bring it in during the coldest months of the year.

@@krishi.0 oh interesting, is the taste similar?

@GreenLove1 Flavourless , so we use it in biriyani and other rice dishes and use it as tea ( leaf + petal ) . We grow it in bulk because of its medicinal value . The whole plant is beneficial and we sell it to ayurvedic physicians . It is affordable and easy unlike saffron as saffron cultivation may lead to crop failure . So , saffron is grown for personal use as 170-160 flower will produce just 1 g of saffron .

@krishi.0 great info, thanks for sharing! Yep, definitely see how Saffron is a huge gamble if doing it commercially! I will have to look more into growing safflower, particularly for its medicinal benefits!🧡

Thanks for the tip, much appreciated!

@@GreenLove1 thank you so much for creating a detailed video. I have been very interested in the benefits of saffron but find that it is often outside of the price range I have available at the moment. I am looking forward to learning how to grow this magical and medicinal plant.

Just want to let you know that the link doesn't work. Is there any way you could post the name of the video so I can find it that way?

If I copy the link into youtube, it just brings me back to this video 😅

Interesting that the link brings you back to this video, hmm. Anyway, just go to my channel page and you will find it in a playlist called Growing Saffron. The name of the video starts with "The Complete 4 seasons of growing saffron...". You can also search for that phrase on UA-cam. Please let me know if you still cannot find it!

​@@GreenLove1 thank you so much for the help! I found it 🎉

@@car507 I love that you subscribed to my channel too, Thank you!! I have linked the spinner base that I used for four of my GreenStalks in the description. But to be perfectly honest, I am saving up to replace them with actual GreenStalk spinner / movers, because those are just so much better! A bit pricey though!

@ thank you I think I might do the same and save up or put them on my Christmas list lol

Yep,.just leave it. Saffron does not need any fertilizer if it's in-ground, in pots just give it a well balanced liquid fertilizer during the active growth period.

Ah, that was the first part of the video, did you see the last pic? Not so lush anymore 🤒

@ it's the season tho

@@twilliam6820 how kind of you, thank you! So glad you caught up too!!

@@twilliam6820 the years fly by! Your patience will be rewarded!!

@@dafadilly615 lol, it might just be a California thing, but I ALWAYS find black widows in mine!!

Lol, I definitely should have put up a warning sign, spider pics ahead!!!!

My experience with pepper plants has been that it's best to leave them in place, don't disturb the roots. Those overwintering steps are needed only if you are bringing them indoors.

@ Thank you!

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@@sherylbailey2783 you are so welcome! While I do have gophers in my back yard, they have not eaten the saffron corms- maybe they just have not found them yet!! I do have an entire playlist called "Growing Saffron" which includes harvesting videos, but really, all you need to do is regularly pinch off the orange stigma and let it dry in a plate for a week, and then store in the fridge in a small airtight jar! Enjoy your saffron!!💜🧡

@GreenLove1 Thank you!

Well I got these plants, from a friend, and I'm trying to plant them and see if they can establish some roots before the cold weather really hits. And yes, hoping they will overwinter! If not I'll just buy a fresh batch and plant them in Spring

@@GreenLove1 I've got some strawberries that are still outputting in my green, so I might roll it to a more sheltered/warmer area and see what happens.

@heylo757 would love to know how they turn out! Good luck!

@@HzFvr you are so welcome, glad you liked it!

@@jolee6751 yeah, I know a lot of people who leave the roots and those will decompose, so that's fine too. I just like to start off clean!!

Good luck, hope it works well for you!!