It’s hard work to harvest, but a growing cadre of small farmers and home gardeners are cultivating the spice for profit, or ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, individuals in Karnataka, including Rajat Kumar and Jacob Sathyaraj, ventured into indoor ...

Getting your soil well-prepared before planting will set the foundation for healthy saffron growth and a successful harvest. A crocus saffron bulb resting on in the dirt - Andrii Lysenko/Getty ...

Tulips to daffodils, snowdrops to fritillaria, spring-flowering bulbs are undeniably pretty additions to any home garden. Plus, you usually only need to plant them once for a years-long show. However, ...

Tulips to daffodils, snowdrops to fritillaria, spring-flowering bulbs are undeniably pretty additions to any home garden. Plus, you usually only need to plant them once for a years-long show.

Many bulbs can still be planted in the garden in the winter, depending on your zone. But if it's too late to plant outside, you can grow bulbs indoors and plant them in your garden after they bloom.

To get a good display plant bulbs the autumn before and don’t cut ... Crocus look fantastic grown in beds, lawns or containers. The spice saffron comes from an autumn flowering crocus.

This was followed by the application of 100 tonnes of fertilisers to prepare the land for planting. A total of 9 tonnes of saffron bulbs — approximately 500,000 bulbs — were sourced from a specialised ...