How to Plant Turmeric the Right Way

How to Plant Turmeric the Right Way – I will share about planting turmeric in this article. What is turmeric? Turmeric is a spice plant that’s commonly used as a cooking ingredient. Its popularity comes from the many benefits for the body, starting from medicine, herb, cosmetic, and even for industrial ingredients. Now, not only is it easy, you only need to take care of it during the turmeric planting process.

Here we go!

Choosing seed

The first important steps in planting turmeric is of course choosing which seed is the best because by doing so it will ensure the quality of the turmeric when being sowed later. There are some things to pay attention when choosing seeds, such as: fulfilled the quality standards, not ridden with pests, and having high quality in general. Other thing to make sure is that the seed comes from a 7-12 years old host.

Seeding

The seeding process is done in order for the seed to grow as healthy and as possible. Seeding will make the turmeric able to adapt more easily. Some of the way seedings can be done are: store the seed in room temperature for 1 to 1,5 months good circulation. The seed can also be placed on a room temperature hay, or soaked in PZT solvent for 3 hours. After that leave it until the sprout grows and the seed is ready to be planted.

Growing media

In order to get the best result for your turmeric, an attention must be paid to the soil where the turmeric is going to be planted. You can know it’s Ph rating by adding chalk on the soil. After choosing the seed, a ploughing is in order, then followed by fertilizing with compost, make a bed with a width of 60-100 cm with a height of 15-50 cm, don’t forget to give space between the beddings of about 50 cm while also paying attention to the drainage around the bedding.

Transferring the seed to soil

After the preparations are complete, it’s now the time to plant the seed. The best time to plant it is during the start of rainy season. In order to transfer the seed that has sprouted, make a 30 x 30 cm bedding with a depth of 60 cm. Give distance between beddings with the amount of 60 x 60 cm. Put the seed in and close it with soil, don’t forget to fertilize it with compost or manure.

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The nursing

There are some of things that we must pay careful attention to in order to grow a good and healthy turmeric, such as:

• Stitching: if there is a dead seedling after being transferred to the growing media in the time span of one week, it’s best to replace that with another seedling. So that it doesn’t have too much time gap with others, make sure to choose the best seed you have, making sure that it will grow up healthy like the others.

• Weeding: Do weeding to the around your plants. If there exists another plant, dispose of it immediately because it can disrupt the growing of turmeric. This weeding can be done when the plants are 2 weeks old. 

• Heaping: During rainy season, the rain water can potentially erode the soil around your plant, and in order to solve it we can add more soil into it so that the soil doesn’t become a pool of water. This can be done when the turmeric is 3-4 months old.   

• Fertilize: This step is the most important step in order to get the best nutrients and benefits from our turmeric. Use organic fertilizer or manure with an amount of 45 tons per acres with a plant amount of 160.000. 

• Irrigation: turmeric is one of those plants that don’t really like excess water as it can damage it, thus, making an effective drainage around it very crucial as it can prevent pool of water during rainy season. With that in mind, the recommended times to water your turmeric is once every day to avoid drought. 

• Spraying: If the turmeric is afflicted with pests or parasite, it’s best to do spraying with pesticide to avoid crop failure. 

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Harvest

Harvest is undoubtedly one of the most awaited moments in growing turmeric. Turmeric itself can be harvested when it reaches 7-8 months old of age. A telltale sign of turmeric that’s ready to be harvested is it color, changing from green to yellow. To harvest it, we can use hoe or pitchfork. 

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And that concludes tips on the right way to planting turmeric. Not too hard, isn’t it? Just pay attention to the drainage so no pool of water will be formed. Right now, a lot of people are consuming turmeric, making it a good time to you entrepreneur out there to start working.