The Spice Of Life

I do like a growing challenge,

This year its going to be spices.

Not necessarily  the hot ones, more those to add flavour.

 First up is some Lemon Grass, very easy to grow

Details here for Growing Lemon Grass

The Lemon grass has been started off in a pot

I have a plastic dome over the top of it to keep the humidity high, that encourages germination and root production

 Next up is Turmeric, its the root you use in cooking, fro what I understand if you grate the root and dry it you can process it to powder, here are details of Growing Turmeric

Turmeric is a relation of ginger, I am growing it in a container in the Poly Tunnel

 Next is Ginger, this ginger is Thai Galangad, I have planted the rhizomes in a container and I am keeping them in the poly tunnel.

There are details here for  Growing Ginger

 I bought these from an Asian supermarket on Amazon, 

I also have some cumin seeds I want to have a go at growing.

In the hot corner I have planted out the peppers and chilies,

There roots were at the bottom of the pots 

They only look tiny here but they are almost 6 inches tall 

The Piquant peppers from Dani over on Eco Footprint are going great and putting a lot more growth on than the others.

I have here sweet peppers, cayenne peppers, purple gusto chilies and hot banana peppers

they were all started off in January as they need a long growing season.