Your cabbage looks fantastic! I bet that's a fun day to spend with family making kimchi. I would like to add that to my list of things to try to make. I've done plenty of sauerkraut with regular green and red cabbage now, but the napa would be fun to work with next. I've had a daikon radish as big as my forearm from the market, so I can't wait to see yours! Those are fun to work with in different recipes, too. It's raining today, so not sure if I'll get any photos to do my garden post this month or not. We don't have a whole lot going on anyway, but at least we did pull up some turmeric this week so better than nothing. :)
Kimchi isn't hard to make. If you can get decent napa cabbage and red pepper paste (most asian supermarkets or Amazon has that), the rest is easy. I'll post my 2019 recipe in a few weeks.
I never tried growing tumeric. I wonder if it works here. I plan on doing more seeds and experimenting kext season, so we will see.
The Korean daikon is not as long, but it is fatter than the Japanese variety.
Cool, I'll keep an eye out for your version. I would imagine the turmeric might do well since you seem to be able to grow a lot of the same things as we do here. It's pretty easy in that if you get some of the fresh root you can break it up a bit to replant and it grows straight from there, so you don't need to save seeds or anything. I'll have to try ginger, as well, to see how that does. Always fun to try out some new things and see what works.
I'm not sure how ginger works, but I imagine it is the same. I've never seen fresh tumeric here, maybe I'll have to order it from the Asia Mart.
I can't grow garlic or onions because they grow over winter and I don't own my land so during the winter, I have no control over what goes on there.
Ahh, makes sense. We haven't tried onions and garlic yet, either. I think the turmeric is supposed to be put in the ground early spring? I'll have to look it up again, but I believe that's what my boyfriend said. Apparently it will just stay dormant over winter even if you do leave it in the ground during the cold weather.
That makes sense. The ground here doesn't really freeze during winter. Maybe the first 1cm or something.