I decided to leave the curry leaf plant pruned 2 days ago (2020 February 3) in the veranda, as an experiment. Reason being, as I have been growing this plant for 10 years indoor, but bore fruit only 3 times so that I thought it would be possible to have the plant sense the danger […]
It is already February. It is time for the curry leaf plant growers to prune to promote new buds to shoot while in winter. While the prune is so simple, I understand that a lot of curry leaf plant growers are reluctant to carry out hard prune. But, I am hearing from a lot of […]
I have once wrote about how to preserve curry leaves harvested with good volume when pruned or before overwintering, by frying in hot oil. (see my blog about how to preserve by frying) It has been a month and half after I fried the leaves, and kept them in a container in a fridge. The […]
During winter time, if you are growing your curry leaf plant indoor where the air is warm and dry, you might want to closely check the plant almost every day. You may find orange or brown colored spider mites in the white web often vigorously moving around. If you find them, you can wash them […]
You may find the glossy honey dew caused by scale insects or aphids, on the leaves. It is sticky and not very nice things when you harvest the leaves and prepare for cooking or other use. But it is not difficult to take care of it. Just wash the honey dew under running warm water […]
When you harvested more than hand full of leaves, this is nice and easy way to preserve the leaves. The process is as described in my blog/recipe on December 3. In order to do this process successfully, keep the flame low-middle, let the leaves swim in the oil by quick stirring, take the leaves up […]
During late autumn through winter, sun light comes into rooms with lower angle compared to warmer seasons. Hold the leaves or sprigs or maybe even entire plant if it is possible, to the sun. Then observe shadows appear on the leaves carefully. Scale insects, aphids and spider mites on the back of the leaves appear […]
During winter time, if you are growing your curry leaf plant inside of the house, you need to check the plant every day preferably for the spider mites. The spider mites breed so fast in the dry and warm environment, especially where no natural enemies are around. They make spider web like nest around the […]
Seedlings growing in green house vary with their size because of germination varied so much. It is not unusual to see the seeds with two embryos. 60% of the seeds I sowed this time were two embryo seed. But I realized that one of the pots had 3 buds shooting, triple embryos! It took 2 […]
Before cooking dishes with curry leaf, nice brilliant green color of the leaf can be obtained by pan frying the leaves in hot oil. The leaves can be stored in a fridge with air tight container for a couple of month. The processed leaves can be frozen, too. This picture tells, once fried leaves keep […]