California gardening today we are gonna
see how to grow ginger it's easy to grow
it's 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 it's
very easy to make your own compost in
your garden and as you can see the
ginger goes really well in this
container it just just compost unit you
know just fruit peels vegetable peels
shredded newspaper and you can see how
rich this is it's amazing how much
nutrients compost can hold and for
ginger right though the main thing you
need to know is to have a nice loose
kind of soil so you know 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 wow
that's a nice big chunk of ginger
you know fresh as it is you can just
take what you want and let the rest grow
just take a shovel you see there anymore
you need to get or just cover it with
the soil so that's a nice big chunk of
ginger right there it 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 and that can go
into 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
but what I usually do is just chop off
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
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
shovel to harvest it it just makes it a
little easier you might find it a little
bit difficult to pull the ginger out
just like that so if you feel like it's
really hard you know just try while
breaking the whole plant just use a
shovel just to support you and don't
pull the entire plant out if you just
snap 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 a
shovel a little bit and pull it out
there we go that's another big piece
