{"id":3439,"date":"2011-09-18T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/?p=3439"},"modified":"2019-10-20T15:18:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T14:18:22","slug":"grow-your-own-saffron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/grow-your-own-saffron\/","title":{"rendered":"Grow your own Saffron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3441\" style=\"margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"saffron\" src=\"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/saffron.jpg\" alt=\"saffron\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Saffron is the most expensive spice in the world used in either sweet or savory dishes. It has a wonderful sweet, earthy taste and is a popular spice for rice.<\/p>\n<p>Saffron comes from the bright red stigmas of the saffron crocus (Crocus sativus). Plant the bulbs during August (or when your bulbs arrive) in a nice sunny spot or a pot on a hot patio and they will produce lovely scented blooms during the autumn year after year.<\/p>\n<p>Once the flowers open look for the red ribbons dangling from the centre of the flowers, pick them carefully with a pair of tweezers and either use them in your favourite dish or dry them and store in an airtight container, in a cool place, for up to two years.<\/p>\n<p>The best way to dry the saffron is to place the red strands on a paper towel for several days in a warm, dry place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saffron comes from the bright red stigmas of the saffron crocus (Crocus sativus). Plant the bulbs during August in a nice sunny spot or a pot on a hot patio and they will produce lovely scented blooms during the autumn year after year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1637],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-flowers-and-plants","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3439"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15618,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions\/15618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}