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I started my adventure with turmeric and ginger by buying a few rhizomes in Biedronka, which I soaked in a solution (1L of water and 1 teaspoon of baking soda) for 5 hours and rinsed well. Then I put them in a pot with soil mixed with perlite and sprinkled them lightly with soil. All the time making sure it was moist enough, but not too wet. After about 3 weeks the rhizomes started to sprout, then I cut them so that they had 2-3 shoots and planted them individually in 12 cm pots to a depth of 3-4 cm in soil mixed with perlite. When they started to sprout the first shoots, I fed them with ground eggshells and banana 1:1. At the end of May, when it got warm outside, I transplanted them to large pots in compost soil mixed with composted manure and watered them in the saucers, not from above into the ground. The pots stayed on the terrace until the first days of October, when the temperatures were around 20 C during the day, but the nights were 10-15 C. Conclusions: turmeric stopped growing, with such temperature fluctuations. Ginger coped better with the conditions and that is why I collected 1.150 kg from 3 seedlings, and 0.535 kg of turmeric. So turmeric must have a stable temperature, because it stops growing and needs much more time than ginger to stimulate growth. We will see what we observe, giving these plants more time and warmth.