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How to grow your own Thai curry ingredients and cut down on food miles

dogwooddaysdogwooddays Posts: 258
in Fruit & veg

Hi,

This week I've been blogging about growing crops which either replace or are substitutes for produce which comes from other countries.

https://dogwooddays.net/2016/07/22/how-to-grow-your-own-thai-curry/

I'm interested to know if you've grown any of these ingredients and how you find them.

Also whether you grow other crops for international dishes that have been particularly successful as I'm always looking for new things to try...

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  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,905

    Well I reckon after all the rain my garden has had recently I could try growing rice in a paddy field! image

    Seriously I have considered attempting to grow Lemon grass but not actually got round to it yet. Maybe next year.

    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • dogwooddaysdogwooddays Posts: 258

    Oh yes, give it a go - it's really easy and I love seeing the little grasses appear. I made a humorous reference to Hertfordshire rice paddies in the blog post - but I hadn't thought that our climate at the moment feels a bit like a rice paddy field!!! image

  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546

    If you can think of any foods for which ground elder would be a successful substitute I could probably supply the entire countryimage I know the Romans ate it (thanks Romans!) but it doesn't seem to have caught on with the native populationimage

  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,905

    Thanks for that DWD. I'll have a go at it. I have got ginger growing at the moment (from a sprouting root bought in the Supermarket) but I'm not exactly sure what will happen with it. I know thw leaves are about 3 feet tall at the moment and I'll have to wait and see what happens with the rhizome/tuber. I just did it for a bit of fun really.

    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • dogwooddaysdogwooddays Posts: 258

    I tried years ago and it rotted, but I am intending to try with hardy ginger next year which sounds like it might survive our climate more successfully. Hope your ginger keeps on thriving image

  • Alina WAlina W Posts: 1,445

    Hate to say this, Ladybird4, but if it's anything like the ginger I grew, you'll be waiting a long time! Nice plant, until it got whitefly....

  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,905

    Ha ha Alina. I'm not too worried. I only did it for fun, had a piece left over from my curry making and it had a little 'nub' on it so I stuck it in a plant pot. The rest - as they say - is history. image

    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • dogwooddaysdogwooddays Posts: 258

    It's always fun to try sprouting random left over things image

  • ClaringtonClarington Posts: 4,949

    Ladybird: I did the same last year (we all have to get our thrills somehow!) and it was ever so interesting to watch. Slow growing but I'm going to try again when the greenhouses are set up correctly for a longer process.

    Sometimes I find the growing part much more fun than actually eating it.

  • Green MagpieGreen Magpie Posts: 806

    I've got some lemongrass growing well in a pot. A.couple of months ago I bought a pack of fresh (well, not very fresh really) lemongrass stalks, and put three of them in water for a week or so. When roots appeared, I put the plants into a pot of compost. I will try to keep it indoors in winter, but for now it's thriving in a sunny spot in the garden.

    Coriander grows well and you can collect the seeds to use as a spice or to grow another crop.

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