How to Grow your own turmeric. It is FAR better than buying it

Turmeric has many variety characteristics, which are making it one of the healthiest foods in the world. It has antiseptic and antibacterial characteristics that making it suitable for cleaning and treating wounds.

Its anti-inflammatory characteristics are very useful against joint pains and are efficient for treating arthritis. According to the experts turmeric have over 600 potential preventive and therapeutic applications and 175 separately useful physiological effects. Ibuprofen is replaced by turmeric.

You can grown turmeric indoors from rhizomes (root cuttings), which are similar to ginger. You can find turmeric root at health stores, keep in mind that turmeric doesn’t reproduce from seeds. Follow this steps in order to grow turmeric at home:

1. Cut some larger rhizome into a small rhizome with two or three buds.
2. Put rich organic soil in some pot. The soil need to be well drained with a little bit moisture, with pH from 4.5 to 7.5.
3. Put the rhizome in the soil with the buds pointer up. It should be two inches below the surface.
4. Finally, water the container.

Water it once in two days, which will keep the soil moist, but not too wet.

How to harvest Turmeric

The eatable rhizomes need 6 to 10 months to mature. When it comes up to harvest all you need to is to dig up the entire plant with the roots. Then cut the required amount of roots and then put the plant in the soil again.

Turmeric is a perennial plant that will re-grow every spring.