Since Cardamon is a tropical plant, I doubt it will ever produce pods this far south, however the leaves still give dishes a lovely cardamon flavour. True cardamon is Elettaria cardamomum; if you want to grow it don't confuse it with the ornamental cardamon-leaf ginger, Alpinia calcarata, which is often sold as Cardamon but doesn't produce pods.I started this challenge on January 5 - it is my aim to harvest at least one thing from my garden every day this year - and photograph it. If I can manage to pick 360 different varieties, then so much the better! This is 76/360.
Cheers,
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Hi Julie,
We steamed some baby leather jacket fish with our cardamon leaves, ginger and chili this week and it was delicious.
Maggie from Mediterranean Adelaide, even much further south.
Hi, we have a 'cardamon' bush here, but the leaves don't look like that... do you have a picture of the full plant and how high it grows. That looks like our Western Indian Arrowroot. Sonya
There is just no way it would be possible to WALK through your garden! If it were mine, I would be forever SWISHING! (so that all those lovely herby spicy smells waft through the air!)...
Hi Maggie,
Oh yum! Now I need some fresh fish to cook!
Hi Sonya,
Sadly I don't have any pics at the moment, and my West Indian Arrowroot died (rotted) last year so I can't compare the two! I Googled pictures though and they *do* look very similar. Cardamon has a very distinctive smell though doesn't it?
Hi Tania,
Oh trust me, I swish! I can't help but rub my fingers over things while I'm hanging out the washing so then it smells all minty :-)
Cheers,
Julie
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