Cardamom Plantation Visit

Rengit Singh

Sat, 18 Jun 2016 11:53:38 GMT

Can we cultivate cardamom under the shade of the teak plant.Or does it needs more sun light.

fx

Mon, 21 Mar 2016 14:55:09 GMT

Good luck

fx

Wed, 16 Mar 2016 12:45:21 GMT

Good luck I hope it worked out good!

fx

Sat, 5 Mar 2016 20:30:51 GMT

I hope you found the cardamom tree

fx

Sat, 5 Mar 2016 20:28:59 GMT

I might try this indoor using seeds from the kitchen!

fx

Thu, 3 Mar 2016 14:53:21 GMT

Yes I think that might work.

mike

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 14:33:36 GMT

I"ll like to know if ever you sell either cardamom, black pepper and cinnamon seed to sow as I"ll like to sow them in Bangladesh
If ever you have can you send me the price of them ( about 100 seed of each of them)
thank for your understanding
Mike

khandu

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 16:17:59 GMT

awesome..I am about to start the cardamom plantation..so i need lots of information.Thank you for the information.

sarah

Wed, 4 Apr 2012 05:10:48 GMT

I have cardamon bushes but I am on the SE coast of Australia and only 16 metres above sea level. Although the foliage of the plants has a wonderful aroma if you brush past them or give them a hug, they do not flower or produce fruit. Definitely worth growing anyway if you have the room.

santosh

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:55:52 GMT

hi iwant to plant a cardmom tree in my gerden.how i get this tree.i live in oriss (bhadrak).I can pay any amount for this plant.i listen this tree can grow from thir root.if any one supply cardmom root by courier please.

Sharon Marvin

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:30:36 GMT

Found your article on cardamom very interesting. Since cardamom looses it"s aroma/flavor over the period of a year, would it be possible to preserve it"s quality by vacuum packing and quick freezing the unbroken pods/seeds?

gardenlover

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:24:28 GMT

Thank you for a fantastic site. I live in Queensland, Australia and was trying to decide if the Cardamom I have is the real thing because it never gets pods and has only recently flowered. I have had the plants for many years. We are now cutting it to ground level to help it regenerate. I now know that I can only use the leaves as tea or flavouring and your site helped with the identification. What a nice place to visit.

Indian Spices

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:08:25 GMT

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seri chanmuang

Wed, 18 May 2011 19:02:00 GMT

I like your garden 9or maybe a farm) I love to grow plants but I don,t have mouch room. I have been searching for the cadamom plant to grow in my back yard. I used to lpin Palm Beach Chapter of Rare Fruit., but not now.

satish deshmukh

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:05:19 GMT

It is very profitable crop for youth farmers, but we dont know how it will grow, where should we get the baby plant? for the same, which type of climate it wants, please give details for the same.

Barbara

Tue, 1 Feb 2011 22:32:06 GMT

I started using cardamom about 35 years ago when I learned to make my grandmother"s traditional Norwegian Christmas bread. It started getting harder and harder to find any that was not already ground so I thought I could grow my own. Being a gardener I thought I could plant some of the seeds and get them to grow, but I never had any luck. I read on one of the spice cans that those seeds were kiln dried and I thought perhaps they had been exposed to too much heat?? Anyway I eventually found some live roots through a catalog and have kept them alive indoors for years. Unfortunately, living in Salt Lake City, Utah where winters can get to -20 degrees there is no chance for it to grow outdoors. I did however, give some to my sister-in-law in Vero Beach, Florida and one year she did get a large pod about 1 inch in diameter. Then they moved the plant and have never had any more blooms. The leaves have a wonderful fragrance when you touch them and so I have kept them as house plants for years. Your article was very enlightening. I always assumed cardamom needed lots of sunlight and I did not know it did better at a higher elevation.

fx

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 08:42:07 GMT

Perhaps you can buy some cardamom pods in a spice shop and see if they sprout?

Tel Braz

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 06:44:57 GMT

Hi I live in Brazil. I love cardamom and unfortunatelly we don t find it here.
I would like to try and grow some cardamom plants here in my backyard,
I wander if It would be possible to get seeds from you?
I would be so gratefull.
Thank you very much

fx

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:00:41 GMT

Sorry Gautham, I have no information about growing cardamom!

Gautham

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:06:10 GMT

WOW. Cool Article. I"ve always wondered from where cardamom comes from. Do all trees give cardamom or only certain ones? If so, which trees give cardamom?

fx

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:40:26 GMT

Thanks and please don"t hesitate to link to my article!

gabriella

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:50:00 GMT

wow, I am in a group called the spicy herbs. we research and cook with a new herb or spice every month and I picked cardamom. your site has the best pics and info. i can"t wait to share all the information. thanks so much gabriella

fx

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:27:27 GMT

Mary Lou, have you tried to plant some cardamom seeds found in a cardamom pod?

mary lou gora

Fri, 1 Jan 2010 20:54:05 GMT

I loved your article and am interested in obtaining some of the trees. I live in Hawaii and think the trees would do well here if they can be imported.

judy watson

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:29:18 GMT

I am trying to locate a cardamom plantation called Kardana owned by my grandfather in about 1937. I know it is somewhere near Munnar in Kerela. Can you help me ?
Thanks

fx

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:33:43 GMT

Yes spice plantations are great fun! Cardamom is a fragrant spice used to flavor "curries" and tea, a very aristocratic and distinctive smell.

melit

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:26:31 GMT

    OMG...ist time i"ve seen a pepper vine...didn"t know
cinnamon is a bark...and where do you use cardamon?
    when will i finish reading the archive?...i"m sleep deprived...but i"m enjoying it all!!! thanks
    you"re heaven-sent

RAMESH C BHATT

Sat, 1 Nov 2008 02:09:16 GMT

how to grow the cardmom in uttankhand.

luya

Sat, 9 Aug 2008 18:04:51 GMT

this work is very impressive. thanks. I wish I could have a garden with spice trees just like this one. I liked the cardamom flower, and I want to give it a try at home. I bought some cardamom, but will it grow? I don"t know if they are seed, but I placed it in a pot. I will try to grow pineapple as well. sounds fun.

fx

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:16:46 GMT

Joshua, you can contact either the tourist office and explain what you told me, and they"ll put you in touch with the right persons, or you can call the people at he Windermere Estate, they are bang in the middle of cardamom and tea fields and grow their own.

Joshua J. Anahonak

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:32:21 GMT

Hello, I am a visual journalist student at Brooks Institute in Ventura, California - and I am taking part of a documentary trip to the Southern half of India in October. I plan taking a visit to the Ooty area, and also the Nilgiri Hills especially for the spices and agriculture. At this time I am having problems finding sites that can get me directly in contact with the plantations, do you have any advice or websites that can help me on this search?

fx

Thu, 22 May 2008 16:05:04 GMT

Patrick, thanks for visiting and congratulations on the good cardamom buy! I am a fiend for Afghan cooking and would very much like if you know anybody who could send me pictures of an Afghan baker baking naans or other flatbreads in a tandoor. Let me know if you have anybody in mind and keep safe!

patrick mireur

Thu, 22 May 2008 09:07:42 GMT

Thanks for the lovely pictures and desriptions. I"m in Afghanistan right now and just discovered cardamom. They call is "a-el" here and use it mainly for green tea (shin chai). Anyway, I got about half a kilo of it for about one US dollar. Thanks!

fx

Tue, 13 May 2008 15:24:57 GMT

Dianne, I am not sure Orlando"s climate and full sun is the best for growing the whole cardamom pods. Could you send me a picture?

dianne

Tue, 13 May 2008 10:00:59 GMT

Hello
I live in Orlando Fl and have a large Cardamom plant
that is over 10 years old. It is planted in full sun
and this spring it grew 4 large stalks that bloomed
beautiful orange and yellow flowers much like an
orchid. After the blooms faded and died I was left with
large ball like pods, not at all like the pods in your
article and pictures. I have left them on the stalks to
dry but I am not quite sure if this is what I should do.
Could you perhaps advise me on what I might do with
these strange blooms?
Thank you for your time
dianne

fx

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:38:01 GMT

ToddA, all you need is plant your cardamom in a grove in Kerala, India, to get it the proper climate. Growing tropical plants indoors sometimes works nice but getting edible fruit is another story - sorry!

ToddA

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:38:55 GMT

I have had a cardamom plant that was purchased at a herb sale in New York State 25 years ago! I have it in a pot that"s perhaps 30cm across and 30cm tall. It has lots of lovely green and aromatic leaves, but has never given me any flowers or seeds. Can you give me some advice for how to get to that final step of flowering? Thanks!

fx

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:26:24 GMT

Katja, I think growing a pineapple plant is definitely possible using the head of a store-bought pineapple placed in a pot in a conservatory. You might not get a full fruit but, boy, how much fun!

fx

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:23:48 GMT

P. Busch, thanks for visiting and good luck with your Texan cardamon, I hope you can give it some shade so it grows Texas-sized pods!

Katja (Kia)

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:38:50 GMT

Hi, thank you for the article and the fantastic pictures!! I love the spices and I would like to grow my own Cardamom. - Now I even want to grow the pineapple!!

Phyllis Busch

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:22:30 GMT

Loved the article and pictures. Have some cardamom growing in my garden here in Texas. I guess it will never bloom here. But I can still have hope. Very interesting and educational. Thank You P Busch

fx

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:34:01 GMT

Parshu I didn"t know you were a Kerala boy! Do you speak Malayalaam? The cobras are really nasty snakes, especially if you work in the plantations I"m told. I"ve brought back a little kokum but it"s a bit dry now, maybe it"s not too late for me to make an article about this unique Keralan spice!

fx

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:25:19 GMT

Thanks Melisha, I wish I could have added some of the wonderful sounds from the Cardamom plantation!

parshu.narayanan

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:43:57 GMT

Like Heidi, I enjoy all your site"s pages fx, but I find your Indian ones particualrly interesting because of the outsider"s perspective you bring. As a child growing up in Kerala (My mum was customs chief of Cochin port) we had peppercorn plants in our bungalow"s back garden - they were the second most interesting thing there to a little boy after the cobras! - I remember crunching up fresh green pepper-corn buds and enjoying the sharp sting of their taste.

Melisha

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:06:40 GMT

I loved the story, thank you for taking the time to share it with us.

p.sasikumar

Sun, 9 Mar 2008 00:54:33 GMT

Cardamom notes is ok. I need more detail about how to extract cardamom& extraction equipment.eagerly waiting for your favorable replay

fx

Sun, 2 Mar 2008 01:10:17 GMT

Heidi thank you for visiting! I had seen your extraordinary cakes and innovative springerle and they inspire me to make some with old Swiss wooden stamps I found here at the flea market. Cardamon - yes you are right that whole seeds is way better than ground cardamom, but both the producer and a wholesale spice merchant I have discussed this with in India said that the delicate smell will evaporate even with the pod intact, let alone if you open it. But if you get lots of fresh cardamom perhaps all you need is increase the quantity to alleviate this loss that Cognac makers call "la part des anges"!

heidi

Sat, 1 Mar 2008 14:14:23 GMT

Your whole site is gorgeous but this was my favorite page as I am totally enchanted with cardamon. I would like to suggest, however, that one decent alternative to emptying your own pods, which can be rather tedious, is to purchase decorticated cardamon - which are the whole seeds out of the pod - and grind them. They still retain much of their flavor. I find it curious that this spice skipped central Europe for the most part but ended up being popular in Scandinavia.

Allen

Fri, 8 Feb 2008 20:20:24 GMT

Wow -- thanks so much! I just bought my first jar of cardamom this week and didn"t know much about it. I"m looking forward to cooking with it ... let"s hope it does add life to my years :-)

fx

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:01:49 GMT

Ivan if you try growing cardamon you"ll first need to elevate your garden a bit - by approximately 4000 feet. Cardamom likes altitude and shade, two things that are rather scarce in Florida if my memory serves me right! But perhaps you could grow pepper or pineapples? Try inquiring at the Fairchild Botanical Gardens down in Coral Gables, they have load of species and a great bookstore!