Growing your own ginger

Having come across the fact that ginger has Rhizomes I rushed off to my local grocery store to buy some fresh ones to try planting them. Don't forget I am a green newbie gardener :)

Ginger rhizome with 2 fingers

Nice node here

Yes that's my finger here not the ginger finger I was talking about.
Someone is falling asleep I think .

Before cutting any plants or plant parts I intend to grow , graft or bud I always use rubbing alcohol to clean my tools

Also I used a diluted antiseptic to clean the plant.

I cut the rhizome into 3 parts as I intend to try planting into different soil mixes to see which works best.

 

I put the cut ginger rhizome into a zip lock bag & kept in the refrigerator as I intend to plant them tomorrow. (It was after sunset when I came back from shopping :)  )

This rhizome looked a bit dry I left it to soak in water overnight to hopefully speed things up when it's planted.

I will keep you posted about the results offcourse.

If you allow the ginger to grow without disturbing the rhizome this is the flower you will get,

Zingiber officinale Roscoe / ginger is grown for either the roots or the flowers :)


Image courtesy of  http://www.ktropicals.com/

 

This is the new shoot after almost 3 weeks  on 14/06/2010.

Species Zingiber officinale Roscoe – garden ginger