Growing Ginger at Home

March 23, 2010

I find that many tea drinkers are also big fans of Ginger. Ginger is very easy to grow at home in the house. The next time you use ginger from the store to cook with, whatever you don't use, throw into a pot of dirt and keep it watered. In about 2 weeks you will see little sprouts pop out of the pot. Don't plant it too deep, you want it to eventually grow big roots at the surface of the dirt so harvesting is easy. Every time you use your ginger, throw the peels and what you don't use into another pot and start another. I have been growing ginger at home for several years now. I have used it in Kombucha that I make, cooking, candied ginger, for ginger syrup, and a ginger liqueur. It makes great gifts for friends.

You can put them out in the garden in the warmer weather but bring them back inside before frost.