Fresh Turmeric (Curcuma longa)
Turmeric is one of our favorite plants to grow in the food forest! Aside from all the well-known culinary and medicinal uses of the rhizomes and leaves, the plant itself provides many benefits to a food forest system.
It can handle full sun but thrives in the shade, making it an ideal understory companion plant for trees. Turmeric’s growth habit make it a perfect home for small frogs and their large leaves are perfect landing pads for dragonflies and damselflies which help control insect populations. When planted densely enough, they do a great job of suppressing undesirable weeds, and because they multiply so profusely, propagating and spreading them around is a breeze. It’s also a great summertime “cover crop” for vegetable beds if you’re in the tropics/subtropics.
Our turmeric stock is a mix between the “Yellow Indira” variety as well as the classic orange variety.
Curcuma longa
Turmeric is one of our favorite plants to grow in the food forest! Aside from all the well-known culinary and medicinal uses of the rhizomes and leaves, the plant itself provides many benefits to a food forest system.
It can handle full sun but thrives in the shade, making it an ideal understory companion plant for trees. Turmeric’s growth habit make it a perfect home for small frogs and their large leaves are perfect landing pads for dragonflies and damselflies which help control insect populations. When planted densely enough, they do a great job of suppressing undesirable weeds, and because they multiply so profusely, propagating and spreading them around is a breeze. It’s also a great summertime “cover crop” for vegetable beds if you’re in the tropics/subtropics.
Our turmeric stock is a mix between the “Yellow Indira” variety as well as the classic orange variety.
Curcuma longa
Turmeric is one of our favorite plants to grow in the food forest! Aside from all the well-known culinary and medicinal uses of the rhizomes and leaves, the plant itself provides many benefits to a food forest system.
It can handle full sun but thrives in the shade, making it an ideal understory companion plant for trees. Turmeric’s growth habit make it a perfect home for small frogs and their large leaves are perfect landing pads for dragonflies and damselflies which help control insect populations. When planted densely enough, they do a great job of suppressing undesirable weeds, and because they multiply so profusely, propagating and spreading them around is a breeze. It’s also a great summertime “cover crop” for vegetable beds if you’re in the tropics/subtropics.
Our turmeric stock is a mix between the “Yellow Indira” variety as well as the classic orange variety.
Curcuma longa