Any others here grow turmeric?

Does anyone else here grow turmeric? We harvested turmeric today and had a bumper crop! It is literally the easiest thing to plant & grow. It only needs water once or twice a week and can be planted almost anywhere. Anyway if you haven't tried it you should! We used to pay $50 a month for curcumin supplements, so this is also a lot cheaper!

Yes!  I grow turmeric. Lots of it. I grow it in my shady or semi-shady spots where most things don’t produce well. If I tally up all my growing beds, I would say that I have 300 square feet devoted to turmeric. And every year I expand the space because I can sell it all. Right now I’m working the soil of my old kitchen garden in order to plant turmeric there. That spot is about 12’ by 10’.

I have not harvested yet. The plants have mostly died back, so I’ll be harvesting my first batch in the next couple days, getting it ready for my Wednesday farmers market.

This is such an easy crop for me. It loves my farm. I get enough rain here, and I’ve enhanced the soil to the point that turmeric grows especially well. While I have various nooks in the food forest area, I also grow it in odd places…..like under the stairs leading down my hill, behind the shed that houses my solar equipment, along the shade side of my house water catchment tank, those sort of out of the way, unused spaces.

I grow it in the glasshouse. In fact, I should go out this week and put the rhizomes into pots...they're currently sitting in some barely damp wood shavings and it's time to start them. They seem to be more likely to start growing when the days are at their longest, and some years I didn't get them going until solstice. They'll grow until end of autumn and then go dormant again, so I tip the pots out in June and store them in sawdust or shavings in a dry corner of the glasshouse. If I put them anywhere cold they rot, but if I bring them indoors they dry out too much.

Yes, wife does in pots or more recently in kids swimming pools.  Any suggestions on keeping vole's from eating them so it could be grown as a crop?

I plant turmeric. So far, I've always harvested less than what went into the ground.

it is one of my "every couple years" crop, along with loofahs and tomatillos: enough survives from year to year that it takes no extra effort, but when it grows well there is so much we don't know what to do with it. Seems to have its own schedule in terms of what years it does well and what years it struggles.

oh boy, this year is turning out to be a super duper bumper crop year. I planted ONE turmeric plant in a pot, but right now my hands are Bart Simpson yellow just from taking out "incidental" turmerics that I didn't plant. Take yesterday: the water company came to replace the meter and lo and behold, the mother of all turmeric plants was growing around the pipe (note: IN GRAVEL. these plants are ferocious.). Had to dig it out (carefully) and now I have *another* kilo to use.

This year I've decided to mostly just grate it and bring to a boil in water, let sit overnight, strain, and then use this tea as a base for sodas, hot lemon tea, golden milk, etc. It lasts a week or so refrigerated. I will probably pickle some later on in the year, since I can spy at least 3 more enormous plants. Found a recipe for a curry that uses a cup of it... this year I should finally "nutritionally valid" amounts of turmeric! About time!