The main healing ingredient in turmeric is curcumin. Many suggest using turmeric to treat conditions such as arthritis, chronic pain, high cholesterol and even cancer.
It is good to know that it is very easy to grow in containers or in the garden. It is slow growing and can take from 7 to 12 months to harvest.
The article below taken from Attainable Sustainable website, gives some great information on planting turmeric and growing tips.
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Where to find turmeric roots
Admittedly, finding the roots might be harder than actually growing turmeric. Fresh turmeric — here it’s called ‘olena — is pretty readily available at our farmers markets. If you live in a cooler region, you might have better luck checking Asian supermarkets. It’s also available to order online. And of course, once you’ve harvested your own first crop, you can continue to replant a portion of the rhizomes you harvest.
Planting turmeric
To plant outdoors: Work the ground well and incorporate some compost into your planting area. Separate rhizomes into fingers that each have at least two buds. Plant, buds up, about 2-3″ deep and 12″ apart. Leaves should start to appear in four to six weeks. Turmeric plants have lovely wide leaves and can work easily as part of a front yard landscape, so long as they’re placed somewhere that can be dug up once a year or so.
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You can read the complete article at: Attainable Sustainable