How To Cultivate Ginger In The House? Ginger is an excellent herb with many uses in cooking and numerous health benefits. We discover how this medicinal plant very easily can be grown in a pot in your house.
The only material that will be required pots with soil and root (technically, it is a rhizome) of ginger that its shape resembles a human hand, purchased in the store. It is best to choose fresh and sturdy root of the size of several inches with as many “fingers”. If possible, locate the root of which are tops “fingers” greenish.
To get more new plants, it is necessary to cut or break “fingers”. Make sure the pieces are at least three centimeters long, and it is desirable to have at least one greenish bud at the top. How to root not rotted, before planting leave it a day or two in a warm, dry place to dry cuts.
Choose a pot or pan that is at least two times the width of a piece of ginger. Fill up the loose earth for flowers and place in pot one “finger” of ginger with a shoot up. Do not crowd him deeper than two centimeters. The pot can put more pieces, making sure that there is enough space.
It is suggested that ginger in the garden planting in the spring, and as houseplants can and in early fall, and when spring comes put it into the garden. When transferring plants from pots in the garden, it is necessary to choose a place with loose soil, in the mottled shade and regular water the. Basically do not need to worry about pests and some problems that can attack the plant.
Watering and care
Ginger should water regularly, as soon as the soil is slightly dry, in order to be constantly moist, but not soaked with water that ginger would not rotted. Do not look for a lot of light, but requires heat. The optimum temperature for growing ginger is around 25 degrees, but remember not to keep the temperature below ten degrees.
Extracting from the earth
A few weeks after planting, from the country will begin to sprout shoots. Green offshoot of ginger can grow from 60 to 120 centimeters. Allow offshoot grows from at least four, five months and during this period can only partially rout ginger. To fully matured, it is eight to ten months and then you can take out the whole of the country.