How to Grow a Turmeric Plant at Home for Cooking and Medicinal Use

Growing a turmeric plant at home is easy! Here’s how to add this root to your spice (and medicine) cabinet. Turmeric is the main spice in yellow curry, giving it its warm flavor and golden coloring. Ongoing research suggests that turmeric may have extensive health benefits as well. Grown for its root, it’s much like ginger. And here’s the cool thing about it: growing turmeric is easy.

你可以自己制作dried turmeric powderfrom the roots!

当然，我住在一个热带地区，这意味着我可以在外面种植这种健康的块茎，但那些生活在凉爽的沟渠中的人可以学习如何发展姜黄 - 即使你在容器中长大。大多数食谱要求杂货店的干燥粉末标准，但如果您手头上有新鲜的块茎，可以使用它。

Check out the turmeric plant (and harvest) in my garden:

Where to find turmeric roots to grow

Admittedly, finding the roots might be harder than learning how to grow turmeric. Fresh turmeric — here it’s called“名- 我们的农民市场很容易获得。如果你住在较冷的地区，你可能会更好的运气检查亚洲超市。它也可供选择order online.

如何在户外种植姜黄植物

井工作得好并纳入一些compostinto your planting area. Separate rhizomes into fingers that each have at least two buds. Plant, buds up, about 2-3″ deep and 12″ apart. Leaves should start to appear in four to six weeks.

The plants have lovely wide leaves and can work easily as part of a front yard landscape, so long as they’re placed somewhere that can be dug up once a year or so. Turmeric leaves are also used in cooking.

在容器中生长姜黄植物

Use a pot that’s roughly 12″ wide and just as deep. Fill with good quality potting soil, and set rhizome 2-3″ deep. You’ll only plant one finger in each pot. Turmeric likes it warm and will be fine outside during the summer months, so long as you keep the soil damp.

It’s freezing weather that’s a problem — you don’t want the roots to freeze.

You can start your turmeric plant inside during the early spring, move it outdoors for garden season, then — if it’s not ready to harvest yet, move it inside again when it starts to get cold. Whether planted in the ground or in a pot, your turmeric plant will appreciate some protection from the hot midday sun.

什么时候收获姜黄

Turmeric roots are actively growing when the leaves are a lush green. When the leaves start to brown and die back, it’s time to harvest. There are two ways you can do this. One, use a shovel to dig up the entire root ball.

或者，您可以通过松开植物周围的土壤并从根球的外部收获来收获一些姜黄。留下根球的主要部分完整，就像你收获新土豆一样。当它出于休眠状态时，该植物将再次发芽绿叶，并产生新鲜的根茎。通过这种方法，根球的中心部分将变暗和柔软。如果你拉起一个较旧的植物，请务必只使用强大的橙色手指。

Wash the soil away from the roots and store in a cool, dry place. You’ll replant some of those rhizomes to start fresh plants. If the tubers start to sprout in storage, plant turmeric as described above.

Using fresh turmeric as a dye

If you’ve ever used turmeric, you know that the bright yellow color of the tubers stains terribly. Spill it on your counter, get it on your hands; the yellow will last for quite some time. So you won’t be surprised to know that姜黄被用作染料for centuries.

Using turmeric for better health

While lately turmeric is the talk of the town — so to speak — in natural healing communities, its use as a nutritional supplement or herbal treatment is not new. These days, there’sdiscussion about its ability to aid osteoarthritis pain, reduce inflammation, or even assist in the treatment of cancer，但它已经用药很长时间，特别是作为抗炎。

PBS talks about thehistory of turmeric它的药用用途。

It was around 500 BCE that turmeric emerged as an important part of Ayurvedic medicine. Ayurveda is an ancient Indian system of natural healing that is still practiced today. Ayurveda translates to “science of life”– ayur meaning “life” and veda meaning “science or knowledge.”

据说吸入姜黄的烟雾据说缓解充血，姜黄汁辅助伤口和瘀伤的愈合，并将姜黄糊剂应用于各种皮肤状况 - 从天花和鸡痘到瑕疵和带状疱疹。

We love thissore throat soothermade with turmeric, honey, ginger, and lemon and this姜黄牛奶。

Drying turmeric

干燥的粉末将保持比新鲜根部更长。如果您喜欢将粉末放在手上，可以自己制作。抬头here找出如何。

Cooking with turmeric

您可以使用本土姜黄厂的新鲜姜黄代替食谱。将一寸姜黄替换为一茶匙的地面香料。你会想要精细地对大多数食谱进行磨沉。将这种健康香料纳入饮食的最简单方法之一是简单地将一块新鲜根部折叠成冰沙。一英寸的件会很好;如果你特别喜欢它带来的味道，请添加更多。

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