Curry leaves

[Lime_Pickle]

I can get these dried but, even better, I can now get them fresh. Except they don't keep well, at all (e.g. in the fridge, or treating them like cut flowers) and I can only buy them - they come as a small branch/twig with the leaves attached - in quantities too large to use immediatley.

Has anyone had any luck with freezing them? Do they still keep their fragrance?

Or with growing the tree in a temperate climate?

[Iolar]

I freeze them in zip-loc freezer bags. I remove them from the twig before freezing (because the guy in the shop told me to) and cook them from frozen. They keep for about three months, then they lose flavour. I've never tried to grow the plant.

[Lime_Pickle]

I've just bought a baby Murraya koenigii. It's 24" high. I shall keep it in a biggish pot and put it in the greenhouse (or maybe bring it indoors) in winter.

[korgy]

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[ceylon_tea]

I have a huge bag of frozen curry leaves in the freezer. It freezes well for 2 - 3 months

[Lime_Pickle]

I have something even better . . .

[Scrubb]

Oh, Wow! How hard is it to grow?

[Lime_Pickle]

At long as you bring it in before the first frosts and put it in an unheated but sunny room you can overwinter them. It will look dead but then suddenly start putting leaves out in about May.

[rezuar]

I totally need a greenhouse.

[BeatRaven]

A unheated sunny room is hard to find.

If it's sunny, you want to sit in it and then turn on a little heat.

[ceylon_tea]

Nice lime. We tried to grow it but clover mites destroyed it.