Harvesting Turmeric is, in my mind, one of the post satisfying plants to harvest. You get to stick your hands deep in the soil and pull out uniquely formed and deeply colored orange treasures. It is rewarding and thrilling to find a huge clump held tightly together.
Turmeric (Curcuma longa) is a perennial plant but since we grow ours for sale in pots, we harvest them each year and store the rhizomes indoors until we are ready to plant them out in late winter.
We left the Turmeric out to dry for a couple of days so that they go dormant before harvesting. It is helpful to let the plants dry out before harvesting the Rhizome.
We pulled the plants from their original pots and gentle removed the soil from around the clumps of Turmeric.
We gently brushed the soil off of the clumps. Making sure soil is removed can prevent rotting while they are in storage.
We left them out to cure for a couple of days and then they will sit in our office for a couple of months until we are ready to plant them out again in late winter!
