Korean Pears are trickling in …
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With a long enough fruit picker, many of those could be yours!
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Ooooo! 
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How cool!
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Probably the most exotic thing I’ve ever heard of in a home garden! Cool beans!
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I’m jealous of all the things you can grow in California.
I was pretty excited to see Canadian saffron bulbs for sale this year. Mine came from Veseys in PEI.
I would be eyeing those neighboring pomegranates. 
The ones I’ve seen in the stores so far have really looked terrible - small, pale and often looking half-desiccated. Was it just a poor year for pomegranate harvests? Even the Costco ones - usually quite reliable for good quality ones - looked a little shriveled and about half the size.
@Phoenikia Those are lovely crocus! The crocus we used to have around the home (not the saffron picking kind) usually sprung up early spring. Is this time common for this saffron variety?
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For whatever reason, the Canadian saffron plant is a fall crocus. I bought these bulbs for Xmas last year, and the nusery didn’t send them to me until September. I don’t think they will bloom in the spring. We had our first hard frost this week and I’m not sure I will have more to pick before winter.
There are also some other ornamental fall crocuses available now , distinct from the ornamental crocuses that bloom in the spring.
My thoughts exactly! There is a lemon tree just outside my classroom here in Malaga and though most of the lemons look pretty rough, there are a couple that I would happily harvest, if my arms were 10 meters long.
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My impression is most around here seem willing to give fruit away, sometimes without asking!
Fruit, but maybe not Meyer lemons. The neighbor with the lemons also has grapefruit which she offered me already in a box, as I was passing during a walk and admired her yard. I took them and walked about half a mile home, only then realizing I wasn’t supposed to be eating grapefruit!
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Re-gifting.
It is not just for Christmas any more!
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Can you cook with fresh saffron, or does it have to be dried first?
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It’s possible to use fresh saffron. it still gets steeped in hot water when fresh.
I don’t trust my drying skills, since I live in a humid climate where mold has gotten in the way of me eating poppy seeds I’ve grown, so I have been freezing the saffron.
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I finally bit the bullet and harvested the rest of my tomatoes today - we’re expecting rain tomorrow and our first freeze on Monday so it was time. I had almost 10 lbs of green or just barely breaking fruit on the vines - here’s hoping it will ripen indoors into something that will at least be useful for sauce. Next year I’ll top my plants and pinch off flowers a week earlier. I pulled my peppers too - quite a few unripe ones there as well. Already dreaming of next season’s first BLT!
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Thanks for the reminder. I was shocked to harvest more tomatoes last week from our very neglected garden, as well as jalapenos from a rogue pepper plant that popped up in a different area of the garden! I’ll have to try to get outside before it rains to get the last of the tomatoes!
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