How to grow ginger on the windowsill

This tropical plant looks like reed (or sedge).

When you purchase the rhizomes make sure it was smooth and dense to the touch, not very fibrous, and the skin with a light silky Shine.

A method of growing at home: choose the most fresh, smooth, shiny spine, preferably with a couple sections of the living kidney. Podsosnovsky spine can hold warm water for several hours, to awaken the kidneys. This will place the root horizontally, buds up, in a wide container with fertile land.

The kidneys need to cover the ground a couple of inches, no more. For the cultivation of ginger in suitable warm and bright room. If the temperature in the room is low – reduce watering, if high – watch that the soil doesn't dry out. The pot is good drainage to avoid water stagnation — the rhizome can rot. To plant ginger, preferably in the spring. If you choose the right conditions to grow, then you can wait and flowering.

Ginger can grow up to a meter in height. For planting you will need a shallow, wide container and the soil (zemlesmes) for growing vegetables.

No need to put the root deep in the ground. Contain the pot with ginger, is needed in a protected place away from direct sunlight and strong wind.

Ginger likes humidity and high air temperature. Not demanding to light, it can be grown in shady places. If it is enough to create the moist atmosphere, it will have buds that will rapidly start to grow stems that reach, even at home.

After flowering, when fully dried leaves and stems (drying time of leaves coincides with the time of readiness of ginger to cleaning), remove the rhizomes from the ground, clear of the ground, the stems, small roots.

Application

Ginger is an excellent medium to excite the appetite and enhancing digestion. It is used for stomach disorders (excluding ulcers), recommend it for motion sickness and disorders of the vestibular apparatus. Ginger eliminates weakness, nausea, dizziness, cold sweat.

Harmful ginger for ulcers, colitis, intestinal diseases, and not recommended for pregnant late-term and lactating women, although in the first trimester of pregnancy, ginger can relieve morning sickness.

In the European, English, Dutch and American cuisine ginger is added to sauces for meat, vegetable and fruit marinades.

In Russian cuisine ginger was one of the most popular spices. With him prepared Sbitnev, brew, liqueurs, bitters, Mead, Meads, as well as cakes, breads and muffins.

In Chinese cuisine popular ginger vinegar and candied ginger. To obtain the last root, remove the top layer, soak the root in water and then dip in syrup or chocolate. The Chinese eat it after lunch, not sleepy.

Ginger tea

Ingredients:

• 3 teaspoons of grated ginger 100 ml of water,
• honey to taste

Preparation:

Scientisty ginger, place in cold water and bring to a boil in a sealed enamel saucepan. Boil on low heat for 10 minutes and leave to infuse for 5-10 minutes. Add honey and drink hot.published

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