Beautiful Flower of The Turmeric Plant

I just love the smell of the turmeric leaves, extremely fragrant when cooked in dishes, used one whole leave when I cooked some chicken serai last week, so "wangi", (fragrant!).

Back in February, after I harvested my turmeric, I replanted the turmeric root with a young plant growing...well, here it is now.....

This plant was showing signs of wilting and I almost pulled it out a couple of months ago, but thought I'll wait a month or so, luckily I waited, it somehow decided to sprung back to life and is growing well now. Even reward me with a beautiful flower!

Photo : 23/10/2012

 Photo : 23/10/2012

 Photo : 26/10/2012

 Photo : 26/10/2012

 Photo : 26/10/2012

In just a matter of three days, the small yellow flowers are visible throughout, each in a pocket of its own! Beautiful!

 Photo : 26/10/2012

Photo : 26/10/2012

Just the flowers for the time being, it is not the time to harvest the turmeric rhizomes, as the rhizomes are not fully grown yet, I took a peek by gently digging the soil around it, no sign of big fat rhizomes! Usually it will take about a year before the rhizomes are matured enough to be harvested. Once the rhizomes have grown to a substantial size, it can be harvested partially by just cutting part of the rhizomes needed instead of harvesting the whole plant. Another indication that it is ready to be harvested is when the leaves starts to turn yellow and the stems are showing signs of drying. 

HAPPY GARDENING !!

Update on Turmeric Plant

An update on my turmeric plant. I harvested all of my turmeric in early February, in my previous post here , and replanted some rhizomes for starting over. Less than two months later, the turmeric plant is thriving well and a new young plant has started to sprout from the rhizomes roots.

Turmeric plants. These are two separate plants with separate rhizomes which I replanted about two months ago. Seems to be growing well, such a pleasure to see this from my kitchen window.  :o)

My never-ending supply of spring onions! I have received a couple of emails regarding my post "How I Plant Sprouted Onions" which I posted back in September 2011. It is wonderful to know that the tutorial has helped a number of home gardeners to achieve the maximum harvest of spring onions from their onions. Thank you for reading my tutorial and for letting me know that it has worked for you too! 

Harvested some of the spring onions, and made some ....

Ham, spring onions and cheddar buns. I use sandwich ham for these buns. Chicken Sandwich Ham can be bought from any supermarket. These buns are really soft, fluffy and tasty.  The spring onions may be replaced with chives from your garden. If you would like to try out these buns, you may get the recipe over at my kitchen, here. Happy baking and enjoy your buns!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Happy Gardening!

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Turmeric

I harvested my turmeric as the plant has matured and showing signs of wilting.

My healthy turmeric plant a couple of months ago. The 'nasi lemak makcik' has been receiving my turmeric leaves every now and then, she will be wondering why there are no more leaves from me now, but she still gets my belimbing! :)

My turmeric plant, picture taken last week! Time to harvest the turmeric and start again. Can you see the flower at the bottom?

Well, this flower did not bloom, it is sort of fading away! Time to harvest the plant.

The turmeric! So happy to see my homegrown turmeric! I started with just a small turmeric and see how much they have grown.

Cleaned and washed, about 800gm

Saved some for starting over. There's one with healthy young plant growing.

Into the container they went. Hopefully new shoots will appear in a few weeks time.

I use the turmeric and the leaves for my chicken rendang that I brought for a potluck party last week.

Yummy and fragrant!

Another round of harvest from my Malabar Spinach plants.


Happy Gardening !