ULOG 128 - Turmeric harvest & start of the BSF season

Harvesting the turmeric

Once again, I'm late for the harvest of the Turmeric and a lot of them have started sprouting already... Anyway, I was nicely surprise because the two root pouches have given such a good yield, I managed to almost fill up a 20 L bucket.

Harvesting Turmeric

To harvest the rhizomes, I first empty the root pouches one by one on a plastic sheet and collect the root and rub off the dirt.

You can see the tip of some of the rhizomes has a little white sprout. I can break or cut out a little piece with the sprout and put it into the soil to propagate.

Turmeric Rhizome sprouting

The bit on my forefinger is the "bulb" from which the plant comes out of the ground and is usually brown while the orange rhizomes are coming out off it like little fingers.

I filled a bit over 3/4 of a 20 L bucket with rhizomes and put the soil back into the root pouches.

After washing the rhizomes of most of the dirt I let them to dry a little bit on a table and put them back in the bucket. My wife will try to make some curcumin extract out of this but we won't get many from this quantity.

Harvest of Turmeric

Beginning of the Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens) season

Black Soldier Fly on a Mulberry leave

Today as I was gardening I noticed several Black Soldier Fly buzzing around and landing on the Lemon balm and Mulberry leaves. The warm week seemed to have helped a lot.

Hermetia illucens ovipositing

Here is a female ovipositing on the gap between the lid and the compost bin. Black Soldier Fly females only oviposit on dry surfaces adjacent to a food source as oppose to ovipositing directly on the food like common house flies.

For those who want to know a bit more about BSF, please check my eBook: Introduction to composting with Black Solider Fly Larvae

I will sure make more posts and videos about this topic in the future.

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