Turmeric, Yellow, White, Red Hawaiian, and BKK
Pictures are from the 2021 harvest, 2022 will not begin till time for the first frost. This year the Turmeric is being grown in 20 gallon grow bags and pots to allow more room in the garden. Pre sprouting was done and it helped but also adds to the labor by starting the season early and having to keep the soil moist and keeping it warm. Will have to get dirt cost downs as the organic dirt which two types were used ran about $35 to fill a 20 gallon bag, There is a place next year where I can cut costs but will have to travel about an hour and half to get a truck load. Processed chicken manure is again being used for fertilizer. A lot of places really put the fertilizer to it both liquid and granular. In the fall a root developing organic fertilizer may be used but some more reading will need to be done
White Turmeric on the Left Yellow on the right 2021
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Great Turmeric Overview
Great Turmeric Overview
Great Turmeric Overview
After falling in love with Turmeric last week, I decided I absolutely had to do a 101 so I could share with you all of the delicious super powers of this tasty root.
Watch the VIDEO!
Not your Chip Salsa
Great Turmeric Overview
Great Turmeric Overview
This POW-erful salsa is from Cal Peternell's new book, A Recipe for Cooking. Eat it on toast with goat cheese, as Cal was introduced to it, or stirred into rice and roast vegetables, as a salad dressing, over fish, and so forth, as I have done. —Ali Slagle
Ways to use the Leaves, you can change the recipes inside
This technique uses 2 leaves
This technique uses 2 leaves
This technique uses 2 leaves
Turmeric Leaves ore often used for cooking, this time we will use it to steam Chicken along with some fresh herbs and spices. This recipe is inspired by the delicious baked fish that I tried during my visit to Imphal which was also covered in turmeric leaves. I am doing my own version of using the leaves for cooking
1 leaf cut into 2 pieces
This technique uses 2 leaves
This technique uses 2 leaves
Sticky rice dumpling is more often seen wrapped in bamboo leaves, turmeric rice dumplings are very special and very regional. Instead of the flavors of the bamboo, it is floral and citrusy from the leaves of the turmeric and fresh ginger
Great video
Simple fold
This technique uses 2 leaves
Simple fold
The smell of turmeric leaves while the patolli with rice flour get steamed is divine. The flavor of turmeric leaves gets seeped into the rice flour while steaming and enhances the taste of patoli. Hence there is no other alternative to turmeric leaves for making patoli.
Health & Skin Benefits
BKK Paste
BKK is an incredibly powerful variety of turmeric having 2-3 times more curcumin than conventional varieties. There are many ways to use this paste from culinary purposes to purely medicinal purposes.
Benefits and Uses of Turmeric Leaves
Turmeric leaves are known as a cooling herb and can be pounded and made into a paste to be used externally to relieve swellings and sprains. The paste can also be used on the face as a beauty treatment to soothe the skin and remove blemishes. Turmeric leaves in India are also cooked in conjunction with religious months or festivals. They are considered to be a Sattvic food, which promotes clear thinking and calm thoughts.
Why turmeric is becoming a favourite with skin experts and skincare brands
Ayurveda has extolled the benefits of turmeric since a while, and beauty brands and skincare experts are catching on. We spoke to them to find out what makes it a power ingredient in beauty products
Cardamom
Though the cardamom has tripled in size, there are no signs of flowers. They are not near the height they can grow to so flowers could be a couple years off. Healthy looking. Not sure how to handle these over the winter. Let them go dormant or supplement light and see if they can maintain.
More to come
Worth taking the time to watch, Beginning a little slow
What is cardamom? History, uses, types and production. - TvAgro by Juan Gonzalo Angel
First part about the region is slow. But picks up. will be watching it again, lots of growing tips
Grains of Paradise
Related to ginger and cardamom
More coming but a West African spice that saw it biggest use as a black pepper substitute centuries ago when black pepper became to expensive. It also has many health benefits including being an aphrodisiac. Other popular uses include in beer and sausage recipes. Getting crowded under the lights but in two days most of it can go outside. Suppose to be 32 at night then rise to the 80's, from winter to summer.
