Home Garden Secrets. Part 6

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Let's continue the topic of crops that can be grown not only in your suburban area, but also at home, right in your apartment. We offer you information on how you can grow ginger at home. Yes, that very spicy plant, which is interesting and beautiful to grow, also brings incredible benefits to the body

What is it?

Ginger is a perennial from the ginger family. It has a branched large rhizome, a strong stem, which grows up to a meter or more under certain conditions. In apartment conditions, of course, less. Large leaves emanate from the stem, capturing long shoots. You should not wait for flowering with indoor ginger. Although other plants belonging to the genus ginger bloom very beautifully in the apartment. We will, in fact, grow ginger in an apartment not for the flowers on it, but for the sake of its healing and useful rhizome. And, of course, for the sake of sports or garden interest.

How is ginger grown indoors?

Growing ginger is not as difficult as it might seem at first glance. True, beginners will have to figure out such subtleties when growing ginger, such as soil for it, care and fertilization for its better growth.

In principle, if you comply with all the conditions that ginger requires from the grower, then it will not be too laborious to get a crop. It will be a little more difficult for beginners, since they will have to understand the acidity of the soil, the fertilizers that are intended for him (ginger), in the proper care of him. Ginger, like many other plants, with proper care for it and compliance with all growing conditions, grows well and gives its owners an excellent healthy rhizome and a beautiful green healthy plant on the windowsill.

Conditions for complete plant care

Ginger loves well-fertilized, loose soil with the addition of sand. The best soil for growing ginger root is turf + leaf humus + sand. The composition of such parts for the soil should be 1 to 2 to 1, respectively. For beginners, you can purchase ready-made soil for growing ginger in gardening stores.

In order for the root of the plant to be free and to have where to develop, but also given that its roots are usually located close to the surface of the soil during their growth, ginger should be planted in wide, flat, voluminous, but not deep containers. Ginger is planted at home in early spring, with a real living root, buds up.

Ginger needs good drainage. Therefore, preparing the soil in advance for planting it on the bottom of the container, pour a small stone or expanded clay with a layer of 1 cm. Above is a pillow of sand a couple of cm thick and the substrate itself. The container should have holes for excess water to escape.

The planting material is kept in a manganese solution for several hours. Then it is transplanted into prepared soil. A layer of earth should sprinkle the planting seed material no more than 2 cm. The first shoots will appear on top of the pot in two weeks (perhaps a little earlier). All this time, the soil with ginger planted in it must be well watered, make sure that it does not dry out.

After the emergence of shoots, watering is reduced, but not until the soil is dry. Ginger loves moisture. Ginger needs feeding. During the growing season (and this is the entire period in apartment conditions from March to October), ginger should be given to "eat" a mullein (1 part) diluted in ten parts of water. Enough once every ten days.

Since August, also when growing ginger at home, potassium in the form of fertilizer and organic feeding should be alternated. At this point, the tubers will form correctly.

Ginger needs frequent spraying if it grows in a room. Since its leaves from the sun on the windowsill or dry air in the room can "wither". It is better to do spraying in the evening.

Do not forget to often loosen the soil in which ginger grows. We do this after each watering to a depth of 1 cm. When September comes, we will see that the ginger leaves will droop and begin to dry out. At this point, you need to sharply reduce watering and not spray more plant. The signal for harvesting is yellow and fallen leaves. We take the roots out of the ground, clean them from the ground, remove the appendages, dry them slightly on paper on the windowsill or on the balcony. We use most of the roots for food or other purposes. The other part can then be planted again in pots.

Store seed ginger before planting in a cool dark place at a temperature of 2-4 degrees C, you can in the refrigerator. Only then should it be wrapped in dark paper.