I only planted mine about 5" deep in shaley clay but I put down 1/2" hardware cloth buried about an inch to protect the bulbs from voles. It makes it a little harder to dig up every few years to thin them out but the hardware cloth comes up fine if you hit it with glyphosate a few times in late spring to kill all the weed roots. When I moved twenty years ago, I dug up a few hundred bulbs and tried to "naturalize" them in my new lawn. I got one bloom that fall and the voles found that one before the next year's bloom time. On Tue, Nov 9, 2021 at 6:46 PM Rimmer de Vries via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > Plant Crocus sativus deep, like 8-12” in well drained soil > > Rimmer > > > Ron Martinolich wrote: > > > > Hi Tim, > > > > When you asked about saffron at the end of October from a BX last year, > I only had 1 bulb showing new leaf growth. This week I have 4 more - 1 has > not made an appearance yet. No flowers last year or this year. Mine are > in a 1 gallon pot, possibly without enough sun or root room. What > conditions are yours growing in that they have already flowered twice? > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>