Wanted Curry Leaf plant... Help please

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
30/09/2010 09:25

Anyone know where I can get some plants... and fresh or dried leaves...



I want to grow my own, but failing that some leaves would be good...

judyr


Joined: 07/07/2009
Posts: 956

Message Posted:
30/09/2010 09:29

me too.... I used my last few that i brought over last week. I like Rick Steins new book but to do some of those recioes requres also a whole jar of leaves! Please let me know if you are successful.

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
30/09/2010 09:35

Well Tesco sell them - but at £2,820 a kilo I'm thinking they are a tad expensive!



That's right £2.82 for 1 gram.... that's got to be more expensive than saffron which I always understood to be the world's most expensive spice...

nadymou


Joined: 14/11/2008
Posts: 18

Message Posted:
30/09/2010 12:15

Hi Groucho,



I don't know if it's the plant you are looking for, but I bought a curry plant in Ardic garden shop, which smells like curry. It is a small bushy plant with silver grey leaves. Hope it helps.



Nadymou

LaptaMike


Joined: 07/10/2009
Posts: 1679

Message Posted:
30/09/2010 12:22

nadymou, thats a different plant. I used to have one.

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
30/09/2010 12:56

Mike's right, that is a different plant albeit with a similar aroma... Curry leaves look like small basil leaves... they don't have the frilly edges like the plant I think you refer to.

Chegwin


Joined: 24/03/2009
Posts: 775

Message Posted:
30/09/2010 13:00

Grouch'

Dont want you eating the wrong plant.



http://www.herbcompanion.com/Gardening/The-Real-Curry-Plant.aspx

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
30/09/2010 13:28

Yeah I won't... it's the herb I want not the Helichrysum italicum or Helichrysum angustifolium.

racoonchic



Joined: 17/11/2008
Posts: 3223

Message Posted:
30/09/2010 14:05

what are those strange lookin plants your growin on ure roof terrace the smell from thems makin me hungry xxx

swyflot


Joined: 07/11/2008
Posts: 916

Message Posted:
30/09/2010 14:36

Gavin, I bought curry leaves in Orphanides

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
30/09/2010 15:25

Richard you must have been smoking them... we don't ave a roof terrace! Keep flying!

cliff


Joined: 09/05/2009
Posts: 47

Message Posted:
30/09/2010 16:11

orphanides now shut down

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
30/09/2010 23:12

Msg1

I have half a pack of a 20g pack of dried curry leaves which you can have and pick up when you're next in Girne. If you're in the UK, the cheapest places to buy them are in the large Chinese/Subcontinent supermarkets.

Email me if wanted.

Richard

LaptaMike


Joined: 07/10/2009
Posts: 1679

Message Posted:
30/09/2010 23:18

in the UK I used to get them from the Indian cash and carries. Cheap as chips. (going off point though, chips aren't particularly cheap anymore in the UK. Think last time I had Haddock and chips it set me back best part of a fiver)

kathsj


Joined: 25/06/2009
Posts: 72

Message Posted:
06/10/2010 18:48

www.poyntzfieldherbs.co.uk usually avail. as smaill plants (10-15 cm) may-sept £9 + pp £7 on orders up to £20.

Not cheap. I bought a couple of citronella shoots from them a couple of years ago - one of which is thriving in the garden in Arapkoy - the one I kept in uk rotted. Or if you just want some leave bought out at beginning November and will collect them from me no prob.

Kath