Ginger, All The Time, Anytime.
From elgourmand 12 years ago
- 1 hr to make
- Serves lots
Was making some chutney the other day and needed a bit of ginger, see Buried In Mangos Chutney Went out to the “ginger storage area” and grabbed a nice looking rhizome, fresh as can be. Read more As I was getting on with the chutney, I wondered why everyone doesn’t keep their ginger this way. After you read this, no excuse. To be honest, I don’t use pots. Here in Samoa it never gets cold so I just keep the ginger in the front flower bed. The pot thing is for those of you who have to endure cold winters. I’m basically talking one or two plants here. You need to adjust the number of plants, and pots, to suit your ginger requirements. Ginger needs a fair bit of sunlight so you need to put your pots near a window. Ginger is a pretty enough plant so you don’t need to hide it. You can, of course, move the pots indoors and outdoors with the seasons. See less
Ingredients
- • 1 seven to nine inch (18 to 23 cm) pot. Bigger pot, more plants. shopping list
- • Enough potting soil to fill the pot. shopping list
- • 1 good size, pretty fresh edible ginger rhizome. ginger, when dried a bit last, and will germinate for, a long time. shopping list
- • A place with decent sunlight. shopping list
How to make it
- 1. Get a decent pot, with a water catcher base See Photo. Ginger needs a fair bit of water.
- 2. Fill the pot ¾ full with good potting soil.
- 3. Get a couple of the freshest possible ginger rhizomes from the green grocer. See Photo
- 4. Put the rhizomes in a bowl of fresh, clean water overnight; to rehydrate them.
- 5. Cut a piece of ginger about 1 inch (2.5cm) long and plant it. You’ll notice that the rhizome has lumps, or knuckles on it. These are the growth buds and you want to make sure you get two or three of these in each piece.
- 6. When the plants get about 18 inches (35cm) high you can start harvesting ginger as needed. See Photo
- 7. When you need ginger just dig up a rhizome and cut off as much as you need and then replant it. You need to leave at least an inch or so of the rhizome so it will continue to grow.
- Ginger is a hardy plant that’s easy to grow. Water it once a week and give it a bit of sun and you’re laughing.
- If you're thinking of getting a ginger plant from your local nursery just make sure it's edible ginger. Safer to grow your own.
- Why not just buy ginger? Once you’ve used “fresh” ginger you won’t ask that question. You just might want to use a little less “fresh” ginger in your recipes than you do store bought. It is more flavorful.
- In addition to watering the ginger you can spray the plant. This isn’t necessary but ginger is a tropical plant and likes a touch of rain; now and then.
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