Ginger — root and youth: how to plant and how to care

Homeland ginger — India, but now it is not clear where they came to our country this plant is from the East or the West. However, it managed to catch the fancy of many.

But few have seen ginger flower, and it is very unusual and is beautiful! We often use pickled ginger or fresh root for different purposes.

This cooking and traditional medicine. I love ginger. And Japanese dishes, and in soups to chicken, with tea. Yes and not just countless.



Ginger (Zingiber) is a perennial herbaceous plant and belongs to ginger family. This family includes about 140 species of ginger. Extensively grown in India, China, West Africa and Australia, also in the culture of Barbados, Jamaica and Indonesia.

In the early 16th century brought to America. It argued that the name of the ginger got from the Sanskrit word singabera which means "horned root".

Ginger contains many essential oils in its rhizome and other parts. It is due to this inherent unusual, spicy-hot fragrance and taste.

The ginger dense, thick rhizome, covered in several layers of leaves located in them with internodes adventitious roots. Developed from the rhizome grows a few ground stems.

Stems of ginger is not pubescent, it is long, rounded and erect. The leaves are simple, entire, long, the ends sharpening.

Depending on the cultivated varieties of ginger flowers may be different due to coloring. The most common in the culture of the orange-yellow and brown blossoms, but there are red. Flowers clustered in spikes at the top of the shoots, in the axils of the leaves. The height of ginger can reach 2 m. Externally, the plant is of the ginger is reminiscent of what our dear reed. But the stems have many scales.

The most famous culture in the form of a medicinal ginger — Zingiber officinale. It will discuss in this article. It was his rootstock we use in everyday life as a spice and also as a therapeutic agent.



 

How to plant ginger

Keep in mind that the ginger — loving southerner. Ginger root is brewing in the ground for about 10 months, therefore, of the opinion that in the middle lane it is impossible to grow outdoors.

Therefore, for growing in soil need a Conservatory or heated greenhouse. Of course, the ginger can easily be grown at home in a pot, but this article is for those who want to get South fragrant and useful guest in your garden.





When planting ginger should take into account that it is a tropical exotic plants do not tolerate drafts, excessive moisture and dampness (starts decaying rhizome), wind and the scorching direct sun also have a negative impact on the crop. Besides, ginger is very bad about the transplant, it is recommended to transplant in the spring, as well as the plant. Moreover, the soil mix needs to be updated and the root to divide.

With a plot we defined: bright, Sunny but not direct sunlight, warm, protected from winds and rains.
 
The soil should be light but very fertile. Its acidity can be slightly acidic or normal. Take a turf ground, humus and sand in the ratio 1:1: 0,5. An area for landing a good dig and charge organic and mineral fertilizers, break sand if the soil is heavy. Organic fertilizers are best suited rotted manure. Fresh cannot be added.

Ginger cultural reproduces only vegetatively, by division of the roots at the nodules from eyes in the spring before planting.

Root for planting must have eyes, which later sprouts will appear, it is cut into pieces so that each had a pair of eyes.

The slices need to sprinkle the crushed coal from deciduous trees. Some gardeners germinated the root, placing it in the water as follows:

The danger lies in the fact that the sprouted roots are not planted directly in the ground in April, it must be planted in a warm greenhouse in late March — early April.

For normal vegetation create ginger a temperature of 25 °C, spray the soil with water. Avoid lowering the temperature to 18 °C, otherwise the ginger will "sleep" and resume its growth will be difficult.

In our harsh climatic conditions ginger dug at the end of August. At this stage, the crop may not please You, so many transplanted ginger in tubs or large pots and grown in a warm house until spring.

Somewhere in February this transplanted ginger will drop leaves and will remain at rest. Thus it is necessary to maintain the temperature not exceeding 16 °C.
 

How to care for gingerProplyvaya weeds and gently loosen soil. In the winter you can dig up and dry the rhizomes, but you can try to replant it in the pot and continue to grow at a temperature of 18-20 °C already at home.

As soon as you notice that the ginger begins to grow, once a month feed it with urea and dry mullein. But by the end of August feeding should be discontinued.

Ginger does not like excessive moisture, but drying of the soil should not be allowed. It should always be slightly moist, crumbly.
 

How to collect the ginger In the South where it is warm all year round, fully ripened ginger is harvested when leaves start to turn yellow, wither and dry, while the rhizome has absorbed a lot of power and was heard. The taste of the ginger is more pungent, full-bodied.

But you can dig and younger ginger roots that have a more delicate flavor. For example, in Thailand, ginger is harvested from November to March. In our reality we have to dig up the rhizome of the ginger at a time when due to weather conditions to grow it longer.

Edible parts are the young sprouts of ginger, like a pencil. In taste they resemble a Mandarin with a tangy tinge.
 

Varieties of ginger as early as the 15th century, ginger is not grown in the wild and carefully cultivated. Breeders are trying to make its roots more juicier and tastier. There are many varieties of ginger, differing in color of pulp: it can be bright, greenish, brownish or yellowish with blue specks. The smell can also vary — buy citrus or grassy notes, or even to give kerosene. However, the sharp taste practically the same for all varieties. However, the whole ginger processing method is divided into two commercial varieties that differ in taste.

1. Black ginger (Barbados) - to obtain raw materials, it is sufficient to pour boiling water over rhizomes, with the peel. This ginger is very pronounced, sharp, pungent taste.

2. White ginger (Bengali) - to get the roots clean with a brush and kept in 2% sulphurous acid. The rhizomes of this form have a less pungent taste and aroma.



 
Love and use this extremely useful plant: ginger normalizes metabolism, improves digestion, promotes weight loss, saturates the body with oxygen and just delicious :)

P. S. And remember, only by changing their consumption — together we change the world! ©

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