How to grow a TON of Ginger from store-bought Ginger Root!
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- Опубліковано 3 чер 2024
- So you want to grow a TON of ginger from store-bought ginger root?
You probably didn’t know it but that ginger root you buy at the grocery store isn’t a root at all! It’s actually a rhizome! What if I told you that you could have fresh, nutritious, and completely ORGANIC ginger whenever you wanted it? Don’t believe me? Well, YOU CAN!
In this video, I’ll show you how to grow ginger in containers and in the ground and get a huge harvest, all from store-bought ginger root. It’s really easy to grow at home both indoors and out. Here I give you my best tips on how to grow a TON of fresh ginger at home, no matter where you live, and be able to harvest it all at once from containers or from in the ground, or just a piece at a time as you need it.
I’ll even tell you all the ways you can use every part of the plant. The best part of it all is you can hide that ginger plant in your home landscape and no one will ever be the wiser. Plus, you can use it any time you need it!
Time-stamps are listed below to make it even easier to reference the information later!
TIME-LINE:
00:00 - Short Introduction
00:36 - GINGER ROOT - what is it, what’s it good for, and can I grow it at home, in containers, indoors or out?
02:49 - PICK YOUR PIECE - How to find the perfect piece of store-bought ginger root from the grocery store
04:18 - LET IT SIT! - Allowing your ginger root to produce early growth for planting success
05:08 - CHOP IT - prepping your ginger root for planting in containers or in the ground
06:16 - PLANT IT - How to plant your ginger root in containers or in the ground
07:40 - PROTECT IT & SPROUT IT - How to protect it in colder climates when planting as well as my best tip to increase humidity and success
09:19- FEED IT & GROW IT - How to fertilize your ginger root throughout the growing season.
10:49 - HARVEST IT - The easiest 2 ways to harvest your fresh ginger root and the tools and techniques you'll need
13:45 - HOW WE DID IT - Recap and condensed description of how we grow ginger root from the purchase of the ginger, to what we can do with our fresh ginger harvest
16:03 - THANK YOU - Live your best well-balanced life and thank you!
17:12 - OUT-TAKES & Funnies: all the stuff that was just too good to leave out. Enjoy my mess-ups!
Thanks for taking the time to watch this video! If you’ve had success growing your own ginger from store-bought roots whether in containers or in the ground, tell everyone in the comments. I always love to hear how other people do things and it helps us all learn!
Thanks again and don't forget to get your hands dirty!
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"I'm always learning" is arguably one of the best phrases one can say about themselves.
I couldn’t agree more!
I think the minute that we stopped learning is the minute we start messing everything up!
The rule is you gotta kill it a few times before you grow it right... Lol. Definitely my case with spices. Tomatoes and peppers not so much. They have cat energy. 😂
@doreenspears8427 😂 I think both statements are very true!
Thank goodness killing vegetable plants in a crime, I’d be serving multiple back-to-back life sentences if it was!
@@TexasGardenDoc 😂😂😂
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Growing ginger is fun. I simply bought some, cut and planted straight into the soil. Some months later it had grown and covered a lot of space giving me fantastic yield. No fertilizer or any additive yet I got abundant harvest. What a super crop! ❤😊
That’s fantastic!
It is a really great thing to grow, and it’s really fun and rewarding as well. I’m glad you did so well!
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I'm in Devine, southwest of San Antonio. I grow store ginger and turmeric every year. I just soak the rhizomes o Enright and plant the nest day. In the late fall, when the leaves dry out, I harvest them by cutting off the dry leaves and dumping out the dirt. It varies from year to year how much I get. Buen Dia!
That’s excellent! Can I ask you a question about where you get your ginger? You’re not too far away from me and I’ve always been curious as to why the soaking method has never worked for me. I’ve kind of thought it’s due to where I get my ginger to grow from at the store. Every time I soak in water, they just turned to mush within 24 hours And nothing ever sprout. Particularly turmeric. I get mine from my local H-E-B, are you getting them there as well? I feel like everything in this area is sprayed very heavily with sprout inhibitors and that may be why no matter how much soaking I do that dies for rats before it begins to sprout!
Good morning from the State of Georgia, I am a Military retired soldier with a lot of time on my hands so I started gardening with great success with watermelon, okra, peppers, squash, daikon, collards, mustards, and now I got to do some ginger after watching your videos, they were very informative. Keep up the great work you do and may God continue to bless you and your family!
Howdy from Texas!
First, I’d like to say thank you for your service and sacrifice for my family’s freedom as well as the rest of our great country!
Sounds like you’ve got a good plot of stuff growing over there! I unfortunately never had much luck with daikons…. I’m not sure why, but I just can’t seem to get them to grow at all! Lol
I’m really excited this is encourage you to grow some ginger! Once you get it going, it really is easy to grow, and understanding your climate makes it even easier. I’m sure after a season or two you’ll be growing lots of it!
If you have any questions or problems along the way, just reach out. I’d love to help you out wherever I can . May you and yours be blessed as well and thank you so much!
@@TexasGardenDoc Thanks so very much for your reply!🙏
It was my pleasure! And I do mean what I said if you have any questions or issues, I’m always here to help!
@@TexasGardenDoc Thanks!🙏
Cool , nice growing
OMG - I’m so glad I clicked on this. For years, I could never figure out why neglected ginger was happy to sprout in my apartment but would fail miserably if I tried to actually grow it. This video was awesome and perfectly organized.
I’m in NYC where it’s always humid. Potted ginger should love the summers here and can hopefully hold on through the winter if kept cozy inside with artificial light. I’ll soon find out!
I’m so glad you found it helpful!
I had the same problem for several years. I tried all the other water methods to grow it as well, and nothing worked. One day I found an old piece a Ginger and planted it, and it grew. So I tried repeating the process that it had done by itself, and it works every time!
It should absolutely do well there! You can definitely bring it inside and protect it over the winter, or you can also plant way more plants and you think you need. I just harvested them before the cold starts, while starting others for the next season.
If you have any questions along the way, just reach out, I’d love to help!
I didn’t realize ginger leaves are edible. I love using ginger root in my dishes and home made remedies. Thanks!!!
Ginger is definitely a powerful little plant! I’m glad I could contribute to your uses. Thank you so much for taking the time to say so!
This is great! I live in Thailand, where there are around 100+ types of ginger. I love this video and how easy you make the instructions for growing.
Oh man, you guys have some of the most amazing ginger K you for your kind words as well!
Ron, thank you so much, for calling his not only incorrect comment out, but also his aggressive, and also ignorant comment as well.
I’ve been cold some pretty nasty things on here, and made fun of told I was stupid, an idiot, all kinds of really nasty things beyond that too. If you look around enough, you’ll find them I don’t delete them and less they use cursing or something like that. However, this person obviously knew that by spelling stupid the way he did it would not get caught by UA-cam and blocked. But the jokes on him, because I’ll delete and block him from the channel now.
If he is a botanist, I hope he doesn’t do any official work anywhere. Or at least, I hope that he learns that if you make statements that are so easily verifiably untrue, that he checks himself before spouting off and insulting someone in this community.
Jonathan, I apologize, And he will not be coming here again.
Thank you so much for this video! I’m in Florida & I absolutely love ginger. My husband’s “Granny Mae” used to grow tons of it. She was so tickled that I loved ginger- every time we would swing by for a visit, we’d leave with a ton of fresh and a mason jar packed with some of her dehydrated slices. She also made these ginger candies for the kids at Christmas. She passed away a few years ago 😢. I’ve missed her (& her ginger)! I can’t wait to grow my own. She used to tell me it was “the easiest thing to grow”, however, she was also one of those people who could put a stick in the ground and ☀️BEHOLD☀️gorgeous flowers or a full harvest of vegetables magically sprung out! Needless to say, I have the exact opposite effect on plants. 🤫I’m currently on “Basil’s” most wanted list for being an egregious serial killer🤣. I walk past plants & they tremble then shrivel 🤭. I’ll keep trying though 🤷🏻♀️
First of all, it was my pleasure to share.
Second of all, I love your sense of humor, you gave me a good laugh this morning!
I’m sorry to hear about her passing but I’m very happy to hear about the excitement she instilled in you about things like this!
I do know exactly what you mean. My father and my grandmother were very much the same way. It seem like everything they did, or everything they didn’t do., they still have the luscious beautiful plants bearing all kinds of fruit and vegetables!
Basil is one of the few things I finally have really good success with consistently! I found it with the kind of heat we have in our areas during the summer. It really need some shade, we’re just wilts and goes away!
The truth is, is once you get used to this plant after the first few years it really is pretty easy to grow. With where you’re at I would highly recommend giving it some good shade all through summer from about noon to four in the afternoon, if that’s not possible, at least make sure that it shaded from about 3 o’clock on one from the setting sun. The heat and UV in our areas during the summer really slows the plant down and can burn leaves back badly . Once temperatures start to cool off, however I see the most amount growth from here on out.
I do hope you give a try, and if you have any questions at all, doesn’t even have to be about Ginger, let me know. I’d love to help you out if I can!
😂I have the same effect on plants. Only thing I've really had success with is sweet potatoes.
😂 it can absolutely be a struggle! There’s just so many variables that are out of our control!
@@TexasGardenDoc thank you for the recommendations & kind words!! I have always wanted to have an herb & vegetable garden because I really love to cook & it would be so great just to have them available without a trip to the grocery store! Not to mention, how satisfying actually growing my own food seems. It really shouldn’t be so hard, I live in Florida- we have good soil & good weather. I’m going to try again because I really want to do and I’m only on 1 “wanted” list and it feels a bit underachieving 😂. On a side note. I was thinking about contacting our local Craig’s list voodoo priestess just to make sure it’s not a curse that’s lead to my plant killing 🤣 (not really but I’m leaving my options open) .
I will most certainly be taking you up on your offer to answer more questions. I will try hard to not make you regret that 🤣💯 Thank you so much
😂 some of the best comments ever, hands down!
Florida can be a bit tricky when growing for sure. There are places that have great soil places that have horrible soil in places. Great soil that have horrible soil in certain spots.
Now I’ve never grown anything in Florida, heck, I think the only thing I have ever grown in Florida is a sunburn! However, I am very familiar with the climate and the way the soils work. What I’m not familiar with is how to grow things there at times. Most things are pretty universal given temperature and soil types, but there are nuances that you just don’t get without growing things there. I absolutely would love to help anyway, I can!
If you’re looking for someone that has grown very successfully in Florida, and even written a few books about it, I’ll be it it’s not what you would consider your traditional Home Garden, but the principles are very sound, I recommend you check this guy out. His UA-cam channel is called David the good. He does lectures on growing food in Florida both in the north and southern parts, and he also has written a couple books, one of them being about his Florida food forest that he grew for several years. He no longer lives in Florida. He lives in Alabama, but I would say most of his gardening knowledge Comes from adapting to Florida, soils and temperatures.
He’s also kind of entertaining as well! Lol.
Like I said always ask you for sure, and I’ll help wherever I can, but he’s a great resource about growing in Florida!
I live in NY for over 40 years and moved to the southern Florida last year. I finally have a small yard to plant. When I looked up on how to plant ginger and your video piped up.
The steps on how to plant ginger are comprehensive and clearly illustrated. Your recap is outstanding. Thank you for sharing.
Although April is kind of late to start, I will see where it leads me to.
I bet that’s a world of difference moving to South Florida from New York! Completely different climate!
Thank you so much for your kind words, I really appreciate that. Once you do get started, let me know if you have questions. I’d love to help you be successful!
It’s OK if you start now you can get some of the harder stuff out of the way, which is getting it sprouted And start it growing. And if winter comes before it’s big enough to harvest, you can always keep it in a pot and bring it inside over winter. Then you’ll have a real jump on the season next year.
I’d love to hear how this turns out for you as well!
@@TexasGardenDoc Thank you so much for your encouragement and inspiration. I put a few in a cloth planter and I will let you know how it goes.
I’m glad I could help! I’m very excited to see how it turns out for you. Best wishes and can’t wait to hear!
I also did the same with Organic turmeric. The plant is very ornamental, and the flower was amazing.
I’m just now starting to grow turmeric. I’ve not grown it before bout man it really is a beautiful plant on top of how amazing the rhizome is!
I am new to gardening. It has really been a challenge to me as I seem to kill every houseplant we have, lol. Thank God my son is helping - that boy can grow anything!
It really can be tough at first. We see all these people with beautiful gardens and outs are eaten, bug infested or dying. But don’t give up! Part of what makes a garden successful is understanding your space over time. It will come. My father can grow anything effortlessly, and I am always trying to adapt to a new situation. Your son has a gift, and an awesome one! You will get there too, just keep growing!
I mainly grow ginger for the leaves, you're right, ginger leaves is great in strir fry, soup,etc,..my wife doesn't do any gardening, but she loves my ginger leaves in her cooking, great informative video on how to/ grow ginger👍, ..keep on digging my friend. 😁
Thank you so much! That’s awesome! I’m unfortunately the only one in my house that likes it in food but they do like it in tea!
I appreciate you taking the time to comment!
Thanks never knew about the leaves in a stirfry
Very tasty stuff! If you use them just make sure to cut them up small because they can be very fibrous!
@@michaeleastwood6755 new for me tooo
It’s tasty and subtle! It can be chewy though, well the stems. The leaves too but if they are smaller pieces I find them not too bad at all!
I’ve been growing ginger for decades in what was titled: grow zone 6b. Now we are retitled in this area…we are now Zone 7a. My growing beds Did not change much. Still growing great ginger - give it a try….even if you think you can’t…Most LIKELY you CAN❣️If your zone numbers are really low, start some now, in pot, inside near a window. UP POT if needed, Transplant outdoors when you sense frost for season has finally fled in fear of climbing temps. It’s a very pleasant plant, safe around pets….sometimes I grow in living room in winter simply for their presence.
You Do A great job on this channel. Love it.
Yes, the zone changes are interesting! I was in zone 9A for as long as I can remember, and then I was moved to 8B, and now I’m back to 9A!
Of course, nothing is really changed at all in most cases. Once you’ve been guarding for a while, you kinda know what your climate does like you said in your comment. You start to sense when things are getting warm or cool and know about when it will happen.
You’re absolutely correct about all of the above Ginger is an absolute pleasure to grow, and for the most part is pretty easy as well!
You get every detail covered in a short amount of time. I like that. Informative and complete.....thanks!❤
You are very kind! And thank you so much for saying so, it means the world to me.
If you have any questions at all, don’t hesitate to ask. I always like to help out wherever I can. I’m usually around.
Thank you again for your kind comment!
I live in Southeastern WA, and I've been getting into gardening.
I live in an apartment, so I'm pretty limited, mostly using a hydroponics grower to germinate seeds.
I've also been saving chicken bones, making stock from them, then dehydrate the bones and ground them into bone meal to be used as a soil amendment for my plants.
My mom had taught me a lot about gardening when i was a kid, and she had grown up on a farm. However, that was about 30 years ago, so it's like I have to rediscover all the stuff I've forgotten. She died in 2006 from cancer at age 54, so she's no longer around to refresh my memory. On the other hand, learning it again is a great way for me to preserve my memories of her, as a smell, or feel of a plant or soil will suddenly transport me back to a memory of gardening with her.
I'm glad videos like this exist. City people scoff at farmers, that is, until their bellies grumble and the shelves at the store are bare. This is the kind of knowledge worth having. A far better investment of one's time and money than most college degrees these days, for sure.
First of all, thank you so much for your kind comment. That means the world to me!
I’m sorry to hear about your mom, and I can completely relate to that. When I was in my early teens, I spent a lot of time with my grandmother, who always grow garden, they had cattle chickens, horses, everything you could think of. She spent a lot of time trying to teach me to grow into can and preserve, and I always did it. The problem was I was a kid and I didn’t pay very close attention. For me, it was just work. After she passed, I realized how much I missed gardening, heck, I didn’t even though I loved it! And I felt so dumb for not paying attention when she tried to give me that knowledge. Luckily, a lot of it did sink in, and I remembered some, but you’re right I’ll never pick a fresh strawberry without thinking of her. And that’s a great thing!
This is my first year to use the Christmas turkey to do the same. I made turkey stock, and turkey bonemeal. It feels good, not to waste those things, and they’re so helpful as well!
It sounds like you’re pretty savvy at what you’re doing already, you can definitely grow these, and if you got a hydroponic set up, maybe add a few heat mats, and you’re ready to go!
If you have any questions at all, don’t hesitate to ask, I’d love to help! And you are so right, everybody’s just a dumb farmer until somebody’s hungry!
The bones into meal! How fantastic!
It was my first time, making my own bone meal, and so far it works really well in the garden, too. I’ll definitely be making more when I run out in the future!
I’m a city people, but grew up and worked on a farm. I love the farm life. But can’t afford it.
It is true that the farm life can be quite expensive. Especially if you want to raise livestock. The feed and upkeep can be quite expensive nowadays. To some degree gardening can be the same way. There is definitely a cost to begin, but once you’ve done that with some hard work, the cost dropped to very little. There are also lots of ways you can get started pretty cheaply with gardening, but sometimes the cheapest ways to get started can even be too expensive.
Hopefully you can find a way to even start just one pot to grow something, if that’s what you’d like to do. It’s well worth it, I’m just taking a step in that direction and Lead you were you thought you’d never go!
I hope that you can find a way to start to do a little bit of what you love, you deserve to have that it’s quite rewarding!
Just saw you for the first time. I’ve been gardening forever but never grew ginger. We have lots of deck to house plants in giant pots. Ginger may just become a new addition. Thank you for your very clear and informative video! Great job. Thank you.
That’s very good to hear! After gardening for many years, it’s always so exciting to find something new to plant that you’ve never grown before. I think that’s why I like to try out different varieties of things even in the common vegetables. Lots of space for lots of pots is definitely a great way to grow it!
If you have any questions along the way or run into issues, let me know. I’d also love to hear how it turns out!
Great and precise video! I live in Virginia and going to start growing ginger among other things. I'm mostly into growing flowering plants but wanting to try my hand at growing other things like ginger and tumeric. I'll be using your channel for lots of info lol. Thx and blessings 🙏 😊
I grow ginger in Indiana. Started with store bought ginger and saved "seed" from my crop.
Barbara, That’s fantastic! It’s definitely well worth growing and I think you’ll enjoy it. Even from a purely cosmetic perspective ginger is a beautiful plant just in the foliage alone. It has such a fine texture. It really add something to the landscape for a flowering area as well. Plus you get the benefit of actually have a great ginger to eat, too!
I hope I can give you the videos you need to help you grow lots of other things. And thank you so much for all your kind words and bless you as well. If you have any questions along the way, just let me know!
That’s awesome! Indiana definitely has its challenges for growing ginger as well. It’s so cool to be able to grow your own and save your own seeds to grow the next year as well isn’t it? Thank you so much for the comment, I really appreciate it!
Good, easy-to-follow instructions. I live in Florida and I noticed my neglected ginger in the kitchen had started to sprout. I buried the roots (along with the sprouts, not knowing any better) and the sprouts came up through the dirt just fine. Now they are about 10 inches tall. Thanks to this video I now know how to harvest the ginger and how to use the leaves and stems. Thanks for the info on how to grow this wonderfully useful plant!
That’s exactly how I figured out this method! After several years of trying to sprout it using water, or soaking it, or just putting it in a pot, and failing miserably by the way, lol, I found a piece. I forgot the bottom in the pantry. So I repeated the process a couple times, and Shernoff it worked!
I’m glad you like the video, and I’m so glad it helped you out as well! It is a great plant, thank you so much of it. I’m going to have to start going way more than I am now.
I’d love to hear how yours turn out and how you like that tea from the leaves as well!
Thank you, I'm going to try planting me some ginger as I love ❤ ginger in all forms. Keep up the great work and happy gardening.😊 grace in Atlanta☮ 😍 💖
That’s fantastic news! It’s always exciting to grow something new, especially something that you never thought you could grow. You should be in great shape in Atlanta to grow your own. You’ll have to watch out for the winner weather and make sure you replant in pots each fall so you have something to grow in the spring. But other than that you should be good to go!
If you have any questions along the way, just reach out, I’d love to help you as well!
Thank you for your kind words, and I really appreciate you taking the time to say so here. All the best to you and yours!
@@TexasGardenDoc I think it likes indirect sunlight. A lot of brown leaves (about half brown, half green) but where it hides behind my bushes, it's all green.
Steve, you are correct!
He definitely likes partial shade, and particularly if you have very hot and intense summers, it really needs some protection during those months. For instance, I Ginger gets between three and four hours of almost full shade during the summer months. It really slows down the browning of the leaves, as well as allowing the plants to grow during that time. Once the temperatures reach about 85 or 90°F they start to slow down the production. However, once the cooler weather comes in, they really pick up in the fall in my experience!
"Cut to the chase" crystal clear and definitive tips, quick and easy to understand. I like the short videos! Good work! Thank you!
David, thank you so much. That is extremely kind of you. I’ve always taken into consideration how others learn and live. I spent a good part of my youth trying to cater to all that I could. I like to help people! What I realized is that the best way for me to help anyone is to be me, because it’s the only thing I’m really good at.
Thank you again! And thank you so much for taking the time to let me know.
I like your chicken, make your own vids. Very Info
Thank you! I may do that soon. I have to say I don’t know as much about confined chickens (what we have now) than about free range like we used to have. Maybe I’ll put a few together! Thanks so much for commenting!
Maybe look for a video that uses a robot? Those seem more abbreviated with no personality.
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Gee thanks for this mate ..just found you. Hubby is Asian and never grown a thing in his life until he met me. I'm a retired farmer now but have been growing things all my life way down here in The Antipodes. Both my parents loved growing plants ; Mum did the house garden and Dad grew the fruit and vegies, and my grandparents were fantastic. Grandpa was a WW1 veteran from Palestine, Egypt and Syria (all on horseback). They were married after WW1 and grandma moved to his farm. They knew the importance of being self sufficient, which wasn't lost on my Dad. They grew a garden an acre large, every year when they had children, and when the children left, they continued with the same size. As they didn't need all the food they grew, they would load up the car each week (after WW2 as they only had horse and cart prior to that) and take it the 15 miles into town and give so much of it away to the elderly who couldn't grow gardens anymore. They did that all through the Great Depression and again through WW2 and continued for all the years after that too...after WW2 they had a car.
Then when Grandpa died Grandma kept up with the garden and produce and still took a carload of vegies and fruit into the elderly every week until she died in a car accident on her way to do her weekly delivery. I remember many times helping them in the garden and climbing the plum, apple, pear, peach and nectarine trees to pick the fruit for them. We lived across the road from them until I was 10 then we moved away, but my uncle and his family moved into our house and so my cousins kept up the help that we'd provided before.
I never knew them to grow ginger though, so I am glad you have shown us all this. Hubby now tries growing things and often watches YT videos but we live in a tiny place with no room so have to rely on pots. love how you work mate. Just keep on making these for people like hubby.
Wow! That is truly an amazing story. Thank you so much for sharing! It’s so strange today. People can’t realize that their lives are attached to those that lived in a very different time, had a very different work ethic, and a very different view of life. My grandmother, my father‘s mother, tried to teach me for a very long time. She always preserved whatever she grew, and she always kind of knew those things. It seemed like no one else knew. Of course I was just a young child, and I didn’t really see is something special. Although now I realize what she was trying to do. It took me a long time to come around, and by the time I did, she was gone. I couldn’t ask the questions I should’ve asked years ago. But somehow some of those things stuck in my head. Maybe I was paying more attention than I thought I was. But I do know that there aren’t many days ago by that I don’t think, I wish I could just ask her to be here with me again.
Such great memories, and I think she is the one, and possibly my father that inspired me to dig deeper and all of this many years ago.
It sounds like your hubby is a pretty great dude! I hope I can keep making videos that help inspire and give him a new ideas. Ginger is absolutely one of my favorites, and I’ve never known how fun it was and rewarding. It was to grow it, if I hadn’t tried!
Thank you so much. This was such an amazing comment! I wish you and your husband, the best, and if you ever have a need for more to the point, if he ever has a question, please don’t hesitate to reach out. I’d love to help!
@@TexasGardenDoc Wow...we have things in common don't we. Yes, a different era for sure. I'm just so glad I got to live in it because if I hadn't, I would not have gotten to know how to bottle fruit and vegetables, make jams, marmalade, (love ginger marmalade), make relishes, sauces, freeze food and so much more. My grandparents all lived through 2 world wars and the great depression so knowing how to make food last a long time, was essential to live. I feel so lucky to have had that knowledge passed on to me as I applied as many of those skills to bringing up 5 boys and money is always tight the more kids you have (2 were my steppies). I just wish that those skills were allowed to be taught in schools because there seems to be a generation they have missed, and city living does not help.
Thank you so much for sharing....I'm a big fan.
That’s very kind of you to say!
It is true that a fundamental thing that was present in everyone’s life during the world wars was how to make sure you were self sufficient, or could at least provide yourself food when you needed it. When I was in school, they used to have a class that taught the basics of building stuff growing stuff working with animals, things like that it was not the most in-depth of class, but it did give you an introduction to how things worked.
That doesn’t seem to be the case anymore unless you seek it out.
It is good to know that interest in growing your own food and being a little bit more self-sufficient has spiked in the last few years. Hopefully that Trang will continue as I do think it’s also invaluable knowledge!
@@TexasGardenDoc I totally agree. I remember when I was at primary school in the late 50s, every class was given a patch of ground along the back of the sports ground to grow some veggies. It all went well until the veggies began to be almost ready for harvest, and then when we rocked up on Monday every single vegetable had been taken and the entire plot had been trashed. The school never did the garden plots again, but the worst thing was the affect the destruction had on the children. I personally think that children in schools should all have the opportunity to be taught to grow food, and how to preserve it for long keeping. There are a lot of us oldies around who have those skills and schools ought to be taking advantage of it.
I do love your videos so please keep them coming. Blessings to you and all your family.
That’s very sad that a few people’s actions can have such devastating effects. But I guess that is the way of the world now isn’t it.
I’ve often thought about volunteering at the local schools to help them understand and grow some food so that the children at least get exposed to it. It’s definitely on my list of things to do!
I live in the Netherlands and tried growing Gingef for the first time. I tried growing it into one of those big square containers that people usually hang up on the walls and have a bunch of flowers in it, I got myself the biggest I could find with a nice drainage. It was quite deep so I filled it up with hydroballs. At first it did very well. Like the plants were about a meter tall. And then suddenly they kept getting yellowing leaves. I tried giving it less water, I tried goving more water, less fertilizer, more fertilizer, less light, more light. But the problem just got worse regardless what I did for the plant. I moved it outside for the summer and the early summer was really dry and the rest of the summer was REALLY REALLY wet.
Currently all the big shoots broke off but it keeps getting small shoots.
I checked the ryzomes and they actually look good and very big despite the leaves looking not so good. I think next month should be harvesting time. I'm curious how much I will get from it, but next year, I think I'll go for the full soil instead.
Hi there!
It sounds like you set everything up very well, I would suspect, but I’m not sure it probably was watering. I know that you filled it with Hydro balls at the bottom, but I’m not exactly sure what your material was. Hydro balls are called different things here or at least different things can be called the same name. What kind of material is it made of, and do the Hydro voles hold a lot of water?
The only thing I can think of other than that would be time of day with the sun it was getting. If it’s in the hottest part of the day, that could be the issue. Typically, I would say best lighting scenario for ginger would be early morning sun through about mid afternoon sun or early afternoon. From there on a good amount of shade is probably the best bet during the hot summer Months.
I will say this it is much more difficult to regulate water and temperature of soil in pots. I’ve been experimenting with a few different soil mixes for growing in pots, but really, it comes down to heat and water really can swing wildly and quickly with containers.
It sounds like you’re doing pretty well and I would get it next season plenty in the ground you’ll have a much better harvest. I know how difficult it is to dig everything up and see how they’re doing!
I’d love to hear how the harvest comes out, and if you have any other questions or insights into this, we can probably discuss further to see if we can determine what’s going on with those pots
It's wonderful that you have the space to keep the rooster. lol
We are very fortunate and thankful for that as well! We used to completely free range them several years ago, it was a different group of birds. But we had to stop because so many neighborhoods have gone up around us that the area they used to forage in is no longer safe for them to roam around. Luckily, we still have the room to have them here now along with the others!
I'm also loving that you're showing how we can grow from store-bought ginger. I'm hoping you have a bunch more of these videos? It's a great starting point for newbies who've never grown anything & also a way for folks to start providing for themselves
I’m working on a few right now! I like it too because it’s easier than having to buy seeds, which can be confusing. The idea is to make it easier to just get started growing! Thank you again!
@@TexasGardenDoc Would love a "how to .."on gathering seeds from your OWN plants. Always wanted to rather than buy but always seem to miss it. Every other channel seems to assume we all know how to do it.
Hi there!
Yes, he’s saving is a very important part of gardening at least for me. Actually, my very first video I made was on saving seeds, it’s not very thorough and I wasn’t even sure how to put a video like that together, but I went over a few of the most simple ones to save.
This year as I come through harvest and certain plants, I’ll be filming and talking about how you can do that. Whether it be by saving seeds propagating the plant, or letting it perennialize.
I like to show the entire process in most cases, so it takes me a long time to put videos together. However, I’ve considered compartmentalizing them a little bit better. That way I can get them out quicker and it’s easier for people to digest.
If you have any questions about saving seed, let me know, I can probably help!
Great video
Thank you Priscilla I’m glad you liked it! I hope it helps as well!
I was brought up around farmers who planted ginger as a number one crop yearly. When it was the reaping time they would have people comes in to peel and wash the ginger, and dry them in the sun for weeks in the season. But with all that I never knew until I'm much older that ginger is so important in our lives.ginger is very good stomach ache and for heartburn.
That’s very cool!
Yes it really is so good for us! I use it to help fight off any kind of nasty ‘bug’ that may be going around as well as to help control my cholesterol a bit!
@@TexasGardenDoc I have no clue that ginger is good for cholesterol.
I’ve read several papers on the effects of ginger on cholesterol, and I was surprised as well!
Lovely spice, I love the background noise from that chicken, keep up that crowing😂👍🏿🙏🏿
Lol! Yes he’s a good rooster!
I love ginger, too, it’s absolutely one of my favorite things to grow in the garden!
Just found you out here looking for how to grow and harvest ginger. Fact you are a fellow Texan is a big plus because you already know how to grow things in this climate. Very informative and detailed without speeding through and missing the steps. Look forward to seeing more from your channel.
I always love hearing from fellow Texans, welcome!
I’m glad you found it and I’m glad you found it helpful as well. He can definitely be challenging to grow in Texas. I actually thought about making a video about it. Lol.
Everyone seems to think that anything and everything grows in Texas all year round, but they don’t know is it the spring and fall or so up and down and random, in some years you might not be able to grow a thing during that time, another years, the heat is so high that even heat loving plants like to die! Lol.
Thank you for your kind comments and I look forward to seeing you in the future as well!
I grew ginger when we lived in Louisiana and it grew so well, the pressure from the rhizome warped the plastic pot it was growing in. We're in Minnesota now and I have a piece of store-bought ginger that's sprouted. I'm going to use a wider bur shallower pot this time and put your suggestions to work. Glad I found your channel.
That’s a big change in climate! Sounds like you already got this under control too. If you have any questions when you get going let me know I’d love to help!
Texas Garden Doc, with knowledge so rare,
Taught me the secrets of growing with care.
Ginger was the plant that he chose to impart,
Its cultivation, he made it sound so smart.
With his words and his wisdom, so full of delight,
He shared his expertise, day and night.
I was amazed at the things that I learned,
My love for gardening, it just got a big burn.
So here's to the Doc, and all that he's done,
Making gardening a pleasure and so much fun.
Amen, Hallelujah, let the praises be heard,
For the Texas Garden Doc, a true green-thumbed herd!
Thanks for the lessons, I'll put them to use,
And watch as my garden begins to diffuse.
So here's to the Doc, and to ginger so fine,
May they grow tall, and bring joy all the time.
Wow! You absolutely win for the coolest comment I’ve ever received. First of all I’m humbled and second. I’m grateful. Thank you so much for taking the time to do something like this, I’m actually sort of speechless. Which is a very rare condition for me! Lol.
You truly have may not my day, not my month, but maybe my year!
I truly appreciate you!
@@TexasGardenDoc Native Texan Texas master gardener here, just found this. I am also
a master dietitian/biologist/biochemist and budding herbalist. I worked 15 years in medical research at 3 Texas medical schools and developed EI/MCS, now called 20th Century Disease or chemical HIV. So, none of the Western wonder drugs seem to work on me, so I started taking herbalist classes. I should have been born in 1850.
So, I am Christian, seriously so and listen for the Holy Spirit to say something to me. He's been telling me for a couple weeks I should be growing turmeric and ginger. Then here your video shows up.
I have written poetry and was impressed by that guy's effusiveness. Very inspiring.
I am going to try to start a regeneration station as a more intelligent option to nursing homes. I hope to get people living on the land and being involved in raising healthy organic non-GMO. food.
Hope you have a video on growing turmeric. Also medicinal mushrooms. Blessings from Zone 8a, Central Texas hill country, USA. Oh, I'm Katy. Paul's wife.
Yes, I am a poet, too, and loved your poem.
Katy, I’m so glad you found me!
Is quite strange how HE can work things out for us. I’m always astounded by the things he sees inside of each one of us, and yet we don’t even know!
I’ve often said I should’ve been born in the 1800s as well. There’s just something about it, this yearning!
I’m so sorry to hear of your diagnosis, but I agree with you 100%. There is so much that has been put here for us. They will take care of all the things we need. We just have to see them you have put together quite a résumé, and I imagine you will likely succeed in the very big way in your vision!
If you have any questions, or ideas, don’t hesitate to reach out!
Just found your channel! God Bless Texas! Fellow Texan here brother! Loved the vid!
Howdy! It’s always great to hear from a fellow Texan!
Thank you so much for the kind words and I’m glad to have you here. If you ever have any questions or thoughts or ideas, don’t hesitate to reach out. I love interacting with all the people on here. I can help people and I learn a lot of new things I never knew before.
And yes, sir… God bless Texas!
I am in the UK and it was useful to know the different planting methods for various zones. Great instructions. Thanks.
Howdy from across the big pond!
I’m glad the video helped you out, and if you do start growing your own, you have any questions just let me know. I’d love to help you out if I can!
As a Northerner (we’re in Zone 5), I was hesitant to watch this video from Zone 8, but Texas Garden Doc offered some handy advice for us up here. I currently have plant in a pot that’s been growing for months- it’s about three feet tall. I’d heard that when the leaves die off, it’s time to harvest. The leaves have not died back but some have turned brown. TGD says that happens when it gets too cold. Sure enough, the pot has been on my glass porch where it’s in the low 50s at night. I had it out there for light, but now know warmth is more important, so into the house it came. I’m inspired now to do two things: “pot up” - transplant to a larger pot AND harvest a bit. Can’t wait to try it. As for transplanting, my compost pile is semi-frozen and under 9” of snow, so that’s my challenge. If I can extract some compost, get in the house to warm it up, I’ll pot up what Ihave and hope it keeps expanding. So inspired - thank you!
Polly, I’m so glad you stopped by! Thank you for your kind words as well!
Believe it or not, there are people in the comments growing it in the arctic regions! It sounds like you are on the right track as well. One thing I didn’t mention in the video is this; if when it’s growing inside you see the leaves getting ‘crisp’ at the edges, try spritzing it in the evenings with a little water. This helped a lot of people growing in Arizona.
If you have any questions at all, just let me know. I’d love to help!
Right on!
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This was a great presentation! Doc covered the growing of ginger from picking the right root to sprouting it, cutting off the growing segments and planting/harvesting it. I liked the tips about using the leaves for tea or dried leaves for soups. Everyone can grow this ginger indoors and set out for the summer in their region.
Thank you so much for your kind words!
You are so correct! Once you figure out the process for your climate it is pretty easy to grow and a wonderful addition!
How long do you keep it in the ground before harvesting
@jeangjolly5165 hey there!
Mine to say gets between eight and nine months of growth prior to harvest. Part of that is done by starting it in pots in the winter indoors so it’s ready to go by by the time spring comes around. And the rest is my growing season right up until the first frost or freeze., So for me usually eight or nine months. However, a big harvest can be hard if you can get a 12 month growing season.
Now, if you don’t have that long to grow it, just make sure to put more plants. This way you harvest smaller amounts from each plant it will still get what you need.
I hope that helps. If you have any other questions, just let me know!
How to grow it ,the fact we're here means we no what it's good for. Thank you.
Very true! And it is good for so many things!
love it!
🤗. I’m glad you liked it! If you have any questions at all, just let me know I love to help out!
I am a fellow Texan and I have just subscribed to your channel. I love it! I like how you explain the growing and harvesting of ginger. I've planted plants and trees, herbs like oregano and basil, even kumquat trees and a lemon tree and have been successful with them but I've always been intimidated by growing veggies or things like ginger, which I never thought of doing. I don't grow much anymore because personal circumstances have not allowed me much energy and time but lately I have been having the urge to grow something and I've decided to go with ginger. I think I can do this! Thank you so much!
Howdy! Always great to talk to another Texan!
Thank you so much, I’m glad you liked it. This is how I learn things, so I present in the way I would want to be taught some thing. I try to keep things simple, so that people know that it’s not as intimidating as you might think to grow some of the things you love. It is true, though, I’ve probably had way more failures and successes over the years, but each failure is an opportunity to learn as well!
When you get growing, if you have any questions at all, he doesn’t even have to be Ginger, reach out. If I can help in anyway, I certainly will!
@@TexasGardenDoc 😄
My son
-born in North Carolina, at 4 years old decided he had been born in Texas.
I was not going to break his heart with the truth, so I told him that he had been #MadeInTexas. Born in NC, but #MadeInTexas... which if not for a few days or a couple of weeks, was almost the truth 🤣
😂🤣😂 well it sounds like he has the spirit of Texas in him!
Thank you for educating all of us new to gardening. Really encouraging to see how easy it is to start growing our own food 👍🏼
It’s my pleasure! In fact, that’s kind of the reason I started this whole channel. I was lucky enough to have someone that wanted to teach me about plants and how they work and how to grow them and use them. Unfortunately, I was a very young man and so I didn’t learn as much as I could’ve. So I spent many years trying to learn the things that could’ve easily been taught. The best part is is that although gardening can get really complicated if you make it that way, it’s really not, as complicated as it may seem. And that’s what I wanted to help people do to realize that just start planting something now and you’ll get something. Not to mention is very rewarding!
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I enjoy listening to ur rooster 🐓 ❤😂😂😂
lol. He’s a good boy. He does good work with his hens and taking care of them! We quite enjoy him as well!
You have a really great TV personality which makes you a pleasure to watch.
Thank you so much. You are very kind I appreciate that! I’m glad you liked it and I really hope it helps you out as well. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out!
You’re a gem! Rarely you find a UA-camr who replies to all comments! I live in the UK, visited my sister in Florida, she’d grown ginger in a pot and convinced me to do the same. Didn’t know how to start! Your explanation on how to go about it is very informative, plus the recap at the end ….., invaluable! I tend to read comments whilst listening, of course one’s going to miss crucial stuff! So a million thanks for that! Going to the store to get me some ginger! I’ll update on how things go. Once again thank you! Gained a sub! 😉
You were very kind and I absolutely appreciate your subscription and you being here!
I do try to reply to all the comments personally. It can be difficult at times, but I feel like if people have questions I need to be the one to answer it if I can. I started this channel to try to help people learn how to easily grow things and not be so intimidated by gardening. I kind of feel like it’s my duty to continue that as far out as I can and that includes the comments. I’m hoping soon to start a place where everyone here can get together virtually and talk as questions propose ideas and I can help as well. There are so many people here that know way more than I do And they are willing to share which is fantastic!
I’m so glad you found the information helpful as well. With store-bought ginger it’s tough because you never really know what they’ve done to it that’s why I like to spread it the way that I do so I know what I’m planting will actually have a chance to grow.
If you have any questions at all or have any problems or issues, let me know. I’d love to help where I can! You can always reach out to me from my business email in the about section of my channel as well.
Thank you again, and I’m so happy to have you here!
Wow growing Ginger in the garden is a great idea and never thought about starting it from a root brought at the market. With the way things are going in our economy and food prices, ginger is a must in our gardens. Not to mention the health benefits. Thanks! I'm a new fan of your channel.
Welcome, and thank you so much. We are glad to have you!
It’s true that as prices go up and quality goes down. It is really important to do something like this. And the health benefits of ginger are astounding!
I don’t know how it’s been where you are, but we have watched prices steadily go up supply, go down and the quality drop to the floor. I’m doing more now than I’ve probably ever done, things that I’ve never done in the garden just to see if I can replace some of those things.
If you give this a go, let me know if you have any questions. And I’d love to hear how it turns out for you as well!
Thanks I shared!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate that.
I’m really glad you liked it and I hope it helped you out as well. If you have any questions at all, I’m always here to help!
Just found your posts. Love this!
Welcome!
I’m so glad you liked it, and I really hope it helped you out as well. If you decide to grow your own, and you need some help or have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out. I’d love to help!
I took ginger from the store & cut it into multiple pieces & put it partially in water & I’ve had it growing nicely indoors :)
Zone 6 in nc. You’d be shocked how much can be grown here. Citrus trees even… so much
That’s awesome! I bet you are a very attentive gardener. Citrus takes some forethought. Out there!
I tried the water thing and it just kept rotting for me. Full disclosure i am NOT an attentive gardener, but I know that works for loads of people!
I bet next year you have bumper crop of ginger!
That’s fantastic! Thank you so much for sharing your experience too. Let me ask you this, did you provide any heat or light for your ginger pieces? Thanks again for sharing!
With our economy going belly up learning how to grow my own sprouts, make yogurt and now grow ginger and garlic in my own apartment will help keep some pleasure in my meatless meals.
I have subscribed and look forward to watching you help me survive this tough times with more hope and variety.
Thanks from a retired veteran.
Vickie, thank you so much for your service to the freedoms that we enjoy (and still try to enjoy) I. Our daily lives.
Thank you so much for your comment. I’m struggling at the moment to grow much of anything thanks to this heat and drought! I have some neat videos that you might find helpful for fertilizing your plants coming up soon. I like to test everything thoroughly and document it on camera so everyone can see it actually works!
Thank you again for this and best wishes to you!
Well done Vickie... Great ideas on surving this awful economy ....thanks...
Agreed
The economy is not going belly up - quit being so negative
@@johnkeyes5719 the economy is fantastic - my house tripled in value
Good 😊 morning Sir my name is Nicola from South Africa, Cape town, I'm a small scale farmer, thanks for sharing your knowledge, and showing how to grow ginger root from store,I hope you will continue to do the good job,I want to learn more ideas, thanks
Very nice to meet you!
It was absolutely my pleasure to share, and I’m glad you liked it too. If you ever have any questions just let me know I’d love to help you out if I can!
Thank you so much for your kind words and it’s my pleasure to have you here as well.
Hahaha love your chicken !!! He' s angry because he doesn' t appear in the video!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You actually hit the nail on the head! It’s funny because I think he’s believes I’m trying to compete with him for his hens! He’s actually a very gentle rooster, although he used to be quite aggressive, but he still likes to make sure that he has his part of the videos when you can! 😂😂😂
@@TexasGardenDoc hahaha
Awesome! ❤
🤗. Thank you that is very kind of you. I truly appreciate that! I really hope it helps you as well. If you have any questions, let me know.
I think you do a very good job explaining things step by step, and the recap was helpful too! Nice job!
🤗 thank you so much! You are very kind! I try to explain things the way I would learn them, I think. For me, I can listen and then listen and then if I get a ‘here are the high pints’ kind of summary it sticks in my brain better!
Thank you so much not only for watching, but taking the time to say that. I truly appreciate it!
Yes thank you I love ginger and so happy to learn how to do it
Excellent! Best wishes to you as well!
I’m so happy to have found a gardener in Texas! I moved here 2 years ago from Wisconsin which has way different growing conditions. I will absolutely give ginger a try. Thanks 💖💖
I would say, that is a very different change in climate! The truth is in a lot of places in Texas, you can grow almost a year round. My gardens always got something in it, although not always something to consume. Like I said, if you have any questions at all about growing, just let me know!
I commented on this video earlier this year and tried to grow ginger and tumeric. So for my update, i dont know exactly my zone but i'm a few hrs south of alaska. But i do have sprouts in both ginger and tumeric in pots from store bought rihzones. I really want to say Thank you on the tips and advice on growing ginger.
Allen, I’m so glad to hear that! I’m also a bit jealous….I’ve gone through about $15 dollars of turmeric and have yet to get anything to sprout!
I’m trying really hard NOT to by organic but I may have to.
I wish you all the best, and I’m absolutely elated to hear that it worked for you. Now you realize, I’ll be really hoping for another update on how it goes from here! I know there a quite a few people here that are growing both in your relative area too, so I’m super excited to here your progress!
It was my pleasure to share, but I truly appreciate you coming back here and taking up your own time to say so! Thank you!
@@TexasGardenDoc I’d be glad to trade some turmeric for a banana...!!!!
Turmeric has been the bane of my existence! I’m stubborn so I’m trying to only sprouted from grocery store bought material. The problem is here all the grocers cut the eyes out so you really have to search around and I know they spray it with a very serious sprout inhibitor. So far I’ve got a few plants going, so I’m happy with that. I just unfortunately don’t have a quick and easy method to show anyone yet on how to grow themselves from the store.
I don’t believe there’s any issue sending you a banana, I know Florida and Texas have very strict agricultural laws. I won’t know till spring time how many pups I have. We had a snap hard freeze in December, which was two months early. I had about three pups at the time from the banana tree, but I don’t know what has survived yet.
Organic ginger is so powerful! I wouldn’t grow anything but organic. You only need a little bit as you showed in your video.
@@TexasGardenDoc ive heard to soak genger and tumeric in water for 24 hours to dissolve the growth inhibitor
I can't wait to grow my own ginger. For those of you who don't or can't, or if you have excess, put whole ginger in the freezer... Grate it (frozen) straight into your recipes... Skin and all!
I love hearing that!
Once you get growing, if you have any issues at all, just reach out I’d love to help you figure it out for your area. And absolutely great advice for Ginger. I’ve always got a few pieces in the freezer ready to go and it taste just as fresh as the day it came out of the ground. Excellent advice!
I learned on my own that ginger needs to be in moist soil but didn't know that I need to give it very rich soil, thanks for your info. Also thanks for pointing out that armadillo "dig" ginger. I will continue to grow in the pot. LOL I like hearing the rooster, always takes me back to my childhood.
He's turned out to be a pretty good rooster I will admit!
I actually had a return of the armadillos two nights ago.... I thought I'd finally found a way to keep them out of the garden...but I was wrong! I upped the protection and haven't seen them yet. The uprooteded a cucumber and my beans (which are already recovering) but they did take out my last 3 pepper plants!?!?! Each year I grow to dislike armadillos more and more!
Great comment, thank you!
@@TexasGardenDoc hey luv ur vid. Keep up..
You’re very kind, thank you!
I worked 3 or 4 weeks on a ginger farm over harvest. There was maybe 10 acres. It is pulled up out of the ground. No timing the tops. Just grab the top, wiggle and pull. It was a red loam soil.
I love my ginger. Looking at fermenting foods and ginger can be used for flavour.
Great video. Thank you so much.
That’s very cool! Yes, I don’t usually worry too much about trimming the tops anymore, I showed that in the video, because I tend to cut the tops and use all the leaves to make tea and dry it out, and then come back for the rest of the ginger later. Now I just pull the whole thing out and harvest at the same time. Mainly because it doesn’t get cool enough long enough, before it freezes for the ginger leaves to die back.
I’ve got a new video coming out pretty soon right ferment ginger, and make some delicious things with it, I can’t disagree I love ginger too!
Thank you for your kind words, and I really appreciate you!
Thanks This really helps😊
If you trim the tops early, wouldn’t it encourage the roots to grow larger?
That’s a Trudi. Great question, I’m not entirely sure of the answer either. I suspect that if you cut the the leaves all the way down to the base, it would absolutely do nothing except require you to harvest almost immediately. However, looking at the structure of how the leaves grow, I don’t believe the trimming them would encourage larger route growth. However, it may encourage more rhizomes to form. But I don’t know that for sure that’s just the sense I feel about it as I’ve never experimented with that. But it’s a great idea to try out!
Great info! Subscribed.
Thank you so much for the kind words, I’m really glad you liked it and I hope it helped you out as well! If you have any questions along the way, once you get growing, just reach out. I’d love to help you out if I can. Also, thank you so much for the subscription. That means the world to me! Welcome to the community!
Thanks for the info!
It was my pleasure to share. If you have any questions once you start growing your own, don’t hesitate to reach out I’d love to help!
I've grown ginger this way for a few years. I've tossed it into my warm lemon water every morning to drink before coffee, but I love to put it into my food or make actual tea. I'm in Georgia, 7b, and my ginger is potted, but this inspired me to add additional planters so I never run out!
Very cool! I only plant a small section of my garden, but some of the comments and recipes and ideas I’ve received have me thinking about adding a few pots on the patio for the same reason!
We've had our garden planted for two years, but this is the first year that it is really thriving. It's got me hooked. I'm so excited to go out each day and see all the wonderful things that we've grown! I am absolutely going to add ginger to our crop. Great job Doc, and God bless Texas!
That fantastic! I have to tell you I feel the same way. Just walking through the garden gives me a sense of peace. Sounds like you are really doing well with it too! Keep up the good work! Ginger is a fun and easy one to grow, once you get it going! Thank you!
Very happy for you to be hooked to the BEST. I am hooked growing Garlic specially its scapes best for stir fry, this will be my second year of Garlic and fourth year of Ginger. I also planting Persimmons 15 years, eat them fresh and hang dried for tea/coffee Winter long! I have 3 trees from 2019 seeds planted in the garden hope I am able to see these 3 trees bear fruits because I am 77 now. Be healthy
I remember eating persimmons as a kid, so delicious!
@@bannguyen5057 If you can spare a teaspoon of Persimmon flesh, put it on your skin.
Wait 20 minutes.
Rinse off blemishes, skin will be so smooth, and baby-soft.
I never knew that either! That’s great!
Great info brother!
I appreciate it, thank you for taking the time to say so as well!
Hope it helps you out. If you have any questions just let me know!
Loved your video
I’m so glad you enjoyed it, and thank you for the kind words as well!
If you get started on your own, and you have any questions at all, don’t hesitate to reach out. I’d love to help out wherever I can!
I usually put on videos to listen to while I work around the house. Most of them play on without much memorable content. The past 5 months I've been trying to start over after my husband ran off with another woman. I've listened to podcasts and UA-cam videos on goal setting to try to figure out how I start living my life again. Who would have thought a UA-cam video on growing ginger would give me give me exactly what I needed?! Your 4 things for a happy and balanced life really resonated with me this morning! ❤ I'm going to print that and put it all around my house! Thank you 😊
D! You just made my day my month and even my year!
I’m glad to hear that something I said can give you some bit of hope and strength to move forward, to find YOU again.
I’ve always struggled with saying those words but only because they are at the end of the video where most people don’t hear them. Sometimes it’s what everyone needs to hear at some point.
Goals don’t have to be laser focused, who really knows what tomorrow will bring, we just need to keep our eyes and hearts on what’s important, the rest is just details.
Best wishes on you healing up and finding that joy that only you can bring to this world. Even if you don’t think that the world sees it as a whole, the world NEEDS your joy!
God bless and I wish you all the best!
Thank you so much for your wonderful comment!
This was the best instructional video about growing ginger that I've seen. I'll be potting mine up in the near future.
That’s fantastic news! Thank you for the kind words, and if you have any questions or issues along the way, please let me know. I’d love to help!
great stuff!
That’s very kind of you, thank you!
I hope it helps you out as well!
Great video! Loved the re-cap at the end too.
Thank you so much! I’m glad you liked it and found it helpful too. I hope!
I always go back-and-forth on the recap… Some people really don’t like it and some people love it, but that’s how I learn so I always seem to include that kind of thing. For me, hearing it one time and then recapping everything and short succession at the end really helps me to retain the knowledge. Hopefully it helps other people too!
This are very clear instructions and easy to understand, well done!
Thank you so much! I appreciate your kind words, and I’m glad you liked it!
I love ginger and live in New Zealand, never thought I could grow my own so can't wait to give this a try . Great video.
That’s great! Let me know how it goes and if you have any questions.
Thanks for the kind words!
@@TexasGardenDoc so I'm in Indiana. So it's hot and humid here and cold winters. So should I start growing it outside and keep it there? Or just grow it inside all year, in a container
Hi! So you kind of get to choose I think. If your warm season is around six months long you should be fine outside. You can actually still do it outside if it isn’t that long, but I’d suggest planting multiple plants so that you can protect in case one dies off or if you want more harvest.
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Awesome video!
You are very kind. Thank you so much!
I’m glad I saw this!
I’m glad you liked it and I really hope it helps you out as well! If you have any questions, just let me know!
Had no idea that ginger could be grown at home. Great job with your presentation! You made it easy to follow and also explained so well, what to look for when buying ginger so you can use and replant. Thank you. Two thumbs up!!
Awww thank you so much! I’m really glad you liked it and that you found it helpful as well.
Once you get growing, if you have any questions, or problems, just let me know. If I can help out, and I certainly will!
I've been thinking about growing ginger for years. Thanks for taking the mystery out of it and showing us just how easy it truly is. I'm living in Florida now so this should work out very well for a successful crop of ginger! Thank You!!!
Florida is great for it! You should do quite well. If you have any questions while you’re growing it let me know and I will try to help!
Great job!👍🏻🌻
Thank you I learned alot!
It was my pleasure, and I’m glad you liked it. I really hope it helps you grow all the ginger you want!
If you have any questions or once you start growing, if you have issues just reach out. I’d love to help you out wherever I can!
Actually, I use so much of ginger in cooking, tea etc, etc., but never knew you could dry & use the leaves for tea. Thank you so much for the video which I gathered so much knowledge.
Keep it up. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
That’s fantastic! I use quite a bit of ginger myself, especially in teas. I can’t remember who told me about the leaves so many years ago and the stems, but I’m glad they did! I use them all the time. Thank you so much for your kind comments, and I wish you all the best!
Thanks! My friend (from MA) just sent me some little Ginger Bulbs to plant. I'm in PA and it is January and cold, so I'm gonna start them inside now under a grow light and on a heat mat--so they can be happy happy!! I thought they were little onion bulbs until I watched this video, and then it hit me--duh, that's Ginger!!
Lol that’s awesome!
If done some experimenting with heat and how it effects the sprouting of ginger. If you can get the solid temp to stay consistently around 82F it will sprout pretty quickly and reliably!
I’d love to hear how it goes for you too. I have relatives from MA haven’t been there in many years. Truly a beautiful state!
Great video! I appreciate it!
You are too kind, thank you! I’m glad you liked it and I hope it helped you out as well.
If you have any questions at all, don’t hesitate to ask. I’m always here to help!
Thanks man
Absolutely! If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask!
Very simple and detailed explained for a clear understanding without all this complicated technical confusing jargon. That's the most I like about this video. That made me subscribe to this channel. Will be starting to grow it as soon as possible. Can't wait for the shoots to come out.
Thank you Richard! I prescribe to the KISS method as much as possible. Nature does what it does, we tend to over complicate things a lot as gardeners.I think that takes the true joy out of it when we do!
Just came across your channel and I am so excited to grow my own ginger! Who doesn't like freshly grown food! Thank you for your very informative video, straight to the point and good tips! (We live in southern Missouri so will bring it in during winter).
I completely agree! That fresh taste is so good straight out of the garden.
That’s great that you’re going to give it a go. If you have any issues or questions along the way, don’t hesitate to reach out. I’d love to help!
Great video!
That is very kind of you, thank you very much! I really hope it helps you out. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask!
Thanks for sharing this!
It was my pleasure! It’s always great to hear from somebody from around my neck of the woods, so welcome!
I hope it helps you out. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out. I’d love to help!
So wonderful! Your living it! Your momma would be so proud! I know how you feel when you said you wished she were here today to share more of her knowledge! A couple months before my mom took ill I was trying to talk her into creating a video library of her amazing baking to give to family as a gift. Thank you for your gift to us!
You are truly kind, thank you!
Yes, it is true that being young and not really listening to the people around, you didn’t know things, costs us, and what we can learn and what we have to go through because of it. I recently heard of a video service in our area that does exactly what you were talking about. They come out as questions talk about their life, it’s like a video biography!
It’s my pleasure to share, and what I get out of it is knowing that people that are looking for information or are unsure of where to start, can find something to help them here. That’s my reward!
This looks so easy, and ginger is such a beautiful plant! Thanks for the inspiration!
I’m certainly glad I could help and I hope it helps you grow your own. I love it too. It’s a beautiful plant and the ginger is spectacular. If you have any questions along the way let me know I’d love to help!
great job ty
You’re very kind, thank you! Also, thank you for taking the time to say so, that means a lot to me. I hope I helped you out as well!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge! I thought it was cute that your chicken/rooster was crowing. It knows your voice 🤠 and who doesn’t want food when you’re hungry? I’m looking forward to growing ginger once I get out of the hospital! Your videos have given me a purpose while I lie on my back recuperating from surgery. Thank you again! ❤
Yes, that rooster he’s always talking when I’m talking! Lol they’re all very good chickens.
That’s fantastic! When you start growing it let me know if you have any questions or issues. I’d love to help. And best wishes on a speedy recovery as well. I hope the surgery went as expected and you’ll be good as new Very soon!
This is awesome! I LOVE learning to grow “exotic” plants, especially edible ones that are available from grocery stores! Thank you so much for providing this clear, concise but thorough video with a recap at the end. Please keep ‘em coming!
You made my day. Thank you for your kindness! If you have any questions or issues when growing it, let me know! I’d love to help out if I can!
How much approx did each each ginger piece multiply into for that 9 month growing period you did? Thank you.
I started one pot that had 3 pieces of sprouted ginger. 1 of those pieces did not grow past that point.
So what you see in he video was those 2 pieces planted about 2 feet apart. What I showed being harvested in the video was half of all I had so one piece.
Hope that makes sense!
I agree 100
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I can't wait to try this.
I love hearing that! It’s always exciting to grow something new in the garden, especially something you never considered growing in the first place!
Once you get started, if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out. I’d love to help you be successful!
Thank you very much. You're the only video I've seen that shows from start to harvest and in much detail.
Glad I could help! If you have any thoughts, questions or ideas I’d love to hear them! Thank you so much for taking the time to comment. It means the world to me!
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Thank you for the detailed video about growing ginger!
My grocery store bought ginger took on a life of its own, and now I’m excited that I know how to plant it and grow my own! I’m in zone 6, so I will enjoy it as a houseplant! Thanks again!
It was my pleasure to share, and I'm glad you liked it and it helped!
Yep, that stuff will start growing right about the time you need to use it, so planting it out makes it well worth it!
If you have any issues let me know, and I'd love to hear how it turns out for you too!
Good video man.
Thank you I appreciate that. I’m really glad you enjoyed it as well!
Thanks for the info
You are most welcome, and I’m glad you liked it. If you have any questions, just let me know!
I’ve tried growing ginger and it probably would have turned out better if I had seen your video first.
My daughter in law uses a lot of herbs and seasonings and my daughter uses candied ginger for stomach issues. I think you just opened the door to future gifts for both of them. Thanks for the info!
That’s fantastic! I think they would probably be really excited to have some fresh ginger to use!
I’m also glad that video helped you out, depending on where you are, it’ll be slightly different for you, and if you have any problems or issues what you get started, just reach out.
I’d love to help you out wherever I can to make sure Those gifts, go out to your daughter-in-law and your daughter!
Great video Doc! I tried growing ginger, it was a hit or miss. I think your way of prepping it before putting it in soil makes sense, and I’ll try it. Thanks for the great tips!
Thanks so much. I really hope this helps you get it going. Thanks for letting me now here and best of luck to you!
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Awesome!! Thanks so much!
Thank you for taking the time to say so! It was my pleasure to share. If you have any questions at all, don’t hesitate to ask I’m always here to help!
Thanks for the info 🎉
It was absolutely my pleasure. I’m glad you liked it and I really hope it helps you out as well! If you have any questions at all, don’t hesitate to ask!
You look pretty !!
Btw, ginger leaves can be used in the spices to make desserts and also the Indian/Brit Tea (yeah, the one with milk).
One tip to have a bumper harvest is to pile in woodash all over the ginger. Keep adding woodash to all root veggies like carrots, beets, asparagus, trust me, the harvest can be 4x !
And yes, root vegetables need loose soil, try to add im vermicompost, it rejuvenates the soil.
You are too kind! Great advice too!
Our winters get down to -6C and -8C so we grow ours in a reo mesh tunnel covered in plastic and in raised beds. In winter the new planting stock is packed in sawdust and wood shavings to stop it freezing (in foam boxes) then planted in early spring. It works and the ginger is 100% better than anything you get from the shops. I didn't know about the leaves, thanks for that one.
That’s a great idea! Sounds like you have the same kind of cold winters that I have, we get down a little bit cooler, but it doesn’t last very long at all. One of the newer projects I want to start, fingers crossed, is a greenhouse for much of my subtropical type plants. We do have quite a bit of humidity, so that can make the cold a little bit more difficult to deal with. But I’m hopeful. I really like your idea, and I bet it worked wonderfully!
@@TexasGardenDoc I used reinforcing mesh, sheets are about 8'X20' (2.4MX6M) bent through a curve with a 10' (3M) diameter. The sides I fixed in place with steel posts. By tying 5 of these on to each other I made a nice tunnel 12M long with a single span end covered in plastic and the rest covered in 15% white shade cloth. It keeps insects and birds out, helps keep the frost off and the "glass" end is great in winter. I have a bore and tanks on solar power and the whole lot is irrigated. Things that need pollinators are grown in a second tunnel the same size but covered in anti bird netting. I live on the central west slopes of NSW Australia and it is a pretty dry climate here.
Good luck with the projects and I hope the extra information is of help to you. I look forward to seeing you again on UA-cam.
That sounds like quite a brilliant set up you have there! I I was thinking of a multipurpose structure myself, but made more to be modular throughout the season. Yeah Deas, I would interchange panels depending on what we needed at the time, whether it be warm or cooling. This does help a lot! Thank you!
I hope to hear from you again as well, you were doing some pretty amazing things!
Ty I love learning new things
Hi there!
I’m so glad that you liked it, and I too enjoy learning new things all kinds of things actually!
Thank you for your comment, and if you have any questions at all, don’t hesitate to ask!
Thanks for info
It’s my pleasure I’m glad you liked it, and I hope it helps you out as well!
I love growing food but this was a big surprise. I couldn't have imagined it is possible to grow ginger !
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I think that might be one of the most exciting things about gardening, finding something new that you never even thought to grow, and giving you a chance! It really can’t be exciting! I really hope the video helped you out some, if you have any questions along the way, don’t hesitate to reach out. I’d love to help!
Thank you so much!!!💗
It was my pleasure! Thank you for taking the time to say so as well. That means a lot to me. If you decide to grow your own and have any questions just reach out, I’d love to help!
Love this video! Thank You!
I’m so glad you liked it, and I really hope it helped you out as well!
If you have any questions, just ask. I’m always always here to help!
Hello from East Texas ❤
Howdy! Glad to have you here, it’s always great to hear from a fellow Texan, and a pretty close neighbor at that!
I grew some beautiful ginger last summer for the first time and just cut several pieces to plant today. It is so easy to do. I bought a package of smaller ginger rhizomes several weeks ago and there are lots of eyes starting to grow.
That’s awesome! It really is a simple plant to grow once you get it worked out for your area. It’s really low maintenance, and it can really produce a lot of rhizomes as well.
Good on you for growing your own’s Ginger! It truly is a rewarding plant in so many ways.
Thanks for the info.😊
It was my pleasure to share, I really hope it helps you out as well!
If you have any questions at all, don’t hesitate to ask. I’m always around and happy to help!
Great job mate, keep up the spirit
Thank you so much, I appreciate that. I’m glad you liked the video as well! If you ever have any questions, just let me know. I’m always around to help if I can!