Hello everybody and welcome to California Gardening
Today we're going to see how to grow ginger
It's easy to grow Its fresh and nice out of your garden
So let's get started
All you need is a nice 15 inch or so container
With some kind of dirt. Now I used compost and
its very easy to make your own compost in your garden and as you can see the ginger
grows really well in this container
It just has compost in it
fruit peels, vegetable peels, shredded newspaper
and you can see how rich this is it it's amazing how much nutrients compost can hold
And for ginger the main thing you need to know
is to have a nice loose kind of soil
Compost works really well. So as you can see the ginger has already
started forming around the container
So what we're gonna do is just keep harvesting
a little bit and then let the rest of it grow. So let's try to pull this out
Found a nice one here...well that's a nice big chunk
of ginger; fresh as it is you can take what you want and let the
rest grow
Just take a trowel
just see if are there anymore that you need to
get or just cover it with the soil. So that's a nice big chunk of ginger right there
And as I said nothing like fresh ginger you can break this up and
even grow some of these pieces as separate plants, if you wish to
you can find out you know some of them would be
really small like this one that I'm just gonna rip off right here
that can grow into to a separate ginger plant so you can save it for later
Now all you do is just chop off the tops
Remember you can even use the tops - they still have that
ginger taste in them what I usually do is just chop off above the greens and then put
them in the compost pile
so they get to work again right away.. So there we go
That's our first harvest. So after harvests, wash them nicely
and I'm sure you'll love the fresh ginger from your garden
Sometimes you might even see a ginger flower growing
they look very pretty. I just had one growing in my container
and I think I didn't wait for it to bloom
So let's start harvesting some more as usual just clear the soil a little bit
from around the ginger
and you can use a trowel to harvest it; just makes it a little easier
you might find it a little bit difficult to
pull the ginger or just like that so
if you feel like it's really hard you know just try to avoid breaking the
whole plant - just use a trowel
just to support you and don't pull the entire plant out
if you just snap it at one place, the ginger should come out
fairly easily; there we go
that was a small part that was preventing this
big piece from coming out so just use the shovel a little bit
and pull it out there we go..that's...
Another big piece harvested!