I am experimenting with growing an edible ginger for the first time, I think it took two months to germinate at first and I forgot to note down when I planted it in soil but now it's pushing out a nice long leaf and it's so satisfying! Thank you for the explanation of the different types of ginger
@@summerrayneoakes I am a student at the RHS now so lets hope I can put it all into practice. Thanks for your continued content it has really informed my decision to study.
Gingers are so underappreciated! They are low maintainace and have pretty flowers and leaves.I have a backyard ginger garden and I've grown a few costus indoors. The ones that still indoors do not go dormant for me but they haven't grown super fast. They are pretty easy and do well under grow lights, that said gnats LOVE them.
I love growing gingers in my house. I have Zingiber officinalis 'Ginger' (conventional and organic have different leaves), Curcuma longa 'Turmeric' (red, orange, and yellow rhizome varieties), Curcuma amada 'Mango Ginger' (tastes like green mango, great pickled), Curcuma zedoaria 'Zedoary' or White Turmeric, Alpinia galanga 'Galangal' and a struggling Elettaria cardamomum 'Cardamom'. I grew a lot of these outdoors in the Bronx last year, started them in Early Winter, transplanted them in April, and harvested them in late October. I'll do the same at my new place here in Bed-Stuy. The galangal actually over-wintered outside and I harvested it late May before my move. I might have a slight obsession with Zingiberales
After watching a Martha Stewart episode on edible ginger, I decided to try growing some. I looked at Walmart, they were almost out, but there were a couple of very small pieces that looked like they would sprout, and put them in 4" pots. Then I put them in one larger pot, then another larger pot. I let them go dormant in my basement. This spring, I started watering, and when growth started, put the ginger in an 18" pot. That pot is now full and the ginger is 42" tall.
I live in Hawaii and the ginger that I love are the non-edible roots that has either white or yellow flowers. Those flowers have a very strong sweet scent used a lot in lei making.
Here in Australia, my local council nursery has native ginger (Alpinia caerulea 'Red Back') in the house plant section. Every part of the plant has been used for culinary purposes by the Indigenous people for many years. It has attractive foliage and shade tolerant. Might be worth trying if you can get your hands on them in the US.
I have 3 kinds of gingers, black ginger, (Kaempferia parviflora) and two types of culinary. 4 types of turmeric, black knight, (Curcuma caesia) green, purple, (C. aeruginosa) orange, and galangal. Most of them, except for the culinary gingers, I ordered from overseas and almost didn't get them because of postal problems in Thailand. I did have variegated shell ginger but it did not like my yard and rotted. This is my first year growing gingers. They do not like Tennessee summers and have not produced anything underground. I'm hoping that letting them dry out a bit more between waterings may cause something to happen underground. I've just brought them all in for the winter. We'll have to see if we have any rhizomes for harvest next year. If these do well over the winter, I plan on ordering a cardamom plant.
Ooh, would liketo try cardamom. Love that spice! We sell the seeds at the health food store where I work, but I never thought about growing them. Interesting idea! I'm in NE Tennessee.
I love to experiment here in the desert. I am currently growing figs, mandarin, apricot, persimmon, jujube, and fuji apple. Thanks for sharing your knowledge 🙏
I have grown turmeric in a pot that I take out during warm months and take indoors in winter. Its over five years old now! I cut the leaves in winter and just make sure soil is moist and it grows back every spring.
My dad plants a good sized plot of Zingiber cassumunar every summer and it's always a surprise to see all those rhizomes dug up!! The species cassumunar smells and tastes much more pungent than the officinale and is a bit smaller but really a tasty addition to traditional asian dishes. And i have a costus erythrophyllus which i think is a great houseplant with those really thick strikingly coloured leaves
I have a ginger plant like your large one, I think it’s a Ginger Alpinia Zerumbet. Mine gives bell shaped cream/orange flowers and the plant is huge. I grow mine outdoors under a tree. I think there’s another one that gives pink flowers that is called Alpinia Kat... “something”. I only use my ginger plant leaves for tea. I also have a Peacock Ginger, that’s more of an ornamental plant, it’s used as a ground cover in Florida. I enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work.👍🏼👍🏼
Who knew? There are so many different gingers...some edible, some not. This was interesting and educational. Your outdoor shade garden is lovely. Shade gardens are quite beautiful...hostas, astilbes (sp), pretty ground covers, ferns, and even some flowering plants take shade. I google a lot, and have found there are many varieties of plants that like those conditions.
_Alpinia formosana_ is my favourite ginger as a houseplant. Named the Pinstripe Ginger from its fine lines of variegation. Easy, fast-growing and spectacular white and red flowers. It can survive outside in the UK but thrives indoors in an East-facing window. Of course the galangal used in much East and Southeast Asian cookery is a relative. That can be grown indoors from the commercial root but is not as pretty and a bit larger. If you can find an Indonesian veg shop you may get the fresh roots of kentjoer, _Kaempferia galanga._ It needs heat and humidity but the cute little plants have decorative leaves and, if happy, will produce lots of short-lived but gorgeous white flowers with dark purple splotches. I grew that one for years from just a few plants grown from roots bought in an Indonesian shop. The taste of the root is a bit too camphory for my taste. I had a plant from Thomson & Morgan a few years before that was supposed to be _Kaempferia galanga_ but was a different species, possibly _Kaempferia pulchra._ Krachai is also found in Thai shops but will need more heat and humidity. _Boesenbergia pandurata._ It gets to about a metre tall and the flowers are tiny and close to the ground. More of a curiosity for the edible root than the decorative value.
In Indonesia name : Jahe, kunyit, kencur, sebagai bumbu dapur dan juga untuk obat dan di Indonesia tanaman tsb hampir disetiap rumah ditanam sbg "Apotik Hidup"
I have one edibile Ginger plant in my kitchen and others are outside in bright light area. Spiral Ginger plant also with me green and white leaves. Rainbow Ginger plant is very beautiful.
Great video Summer, thank you. Just today I was thinking of planting my ginger because I am not using quick enough. And when I searched on how to grow ginger, your video came up 🤗. Thanks for sharing, I am definitely going to plant my ginger, super excited about it. 😘❤🌱🌸
I grow a "Midnight ginger" Zingiber malaysianum, It's gorgeous but probably requires more humidity than I can provide. The smell of the leaves is amazing! It's like a Christmas ginger, like ginger with dessert spices.
I grew a culinary ginger a few years back. Just a small root but it broke its pot in a month. Broke the next one a month after that. Is now in a large 3 foot by one foot planter and is on the verge of breaking it. It grows very fast.
@@aliciastrous1966 I live in Canada so it is indoors. My temperature is around 28-30 degrees Celsius (80-86F). Humidity is around 55% in room but probably closer to 70 around the pot. I have it against a south facing window and have a 75 watt draw LED grow bulb above it which I have on for 16-18 hours a day. The thing goes through close to a 2 gallons of water a week so watering is a constant chore. Though, its pot is huge so 2 gallons isn't that much given the size. Edit for spelling.
I live in FL and grow gobs of gingers: globbas, hedychiums, "grocery store gingers", curcumas, etc. Some can take quite a bit of sun and are pretty drought tolerant but ONLY if there is quite a bit of humidity. Cool growing some varieties inside the house.
I live in a subtropical country, and have failed to grow ginger inside, however I have several species in my small outdoor area. I will try again to grow it indoors, maybe closer to a window and water more often. Torch ginger is so beautiful with reddish green, I would love to have it in my bedroom window. Great video!
@@summerrayneoakes I brought inside a huge pot of torch ginger earlier this year, it died down very quickly, I also tried with variegated ginger last month and it also disintegrated. It could be that they get shocked to suddenly be indoors. I like beehive ginger too!
Indonesian here, ginger family en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zingiberaceae (locally known as temu-temuan) are abundant. Have lots of ginger family plants at my backyard (turmeric, ginger, galangal, cardamom etc) Most of those plant are native from tropics, so here are some key you should follow if you grow it in cold area (even in snowy area like canada, russia, finland etc) - heat, you can trick it with room heater or specialized heater for greenhouse - humidity, cover your crops with plastic sheet if humidity level drop - sunlight, use led growth light It will add more cost but you cant plant any tropical plant without "modern tech" if you live in cold area My favourite way to consume: - ginger tea (locally known as wedang jahe) - turmeric-tamarin juice (locally known as jahu kunyit asam) Have been drink both of those on daily basis for years Wish it useful for anyone who read this comment 🙏🙏🙏 *_online translator is your best friend if you dont know some word in indonesian_*
When you’re already growing ginger and turmeric as houseplants and Summer tell you it’s a good houseplant. Feeling validated and ahead of the game. So when do we harvest our ginger bounty?
I grew two pots of curcumin last year, they grew really tall but never bloomed, just died in the early winter, was so disappointed because the reason why I planted them was hoping I could see those beautiful pink flowers.
I have a Kaempferia galanga in my balcony and she's as happy as can be! I also live in tropical philippines, which helps. I love her purple flowers! I cant seem to stop it from growing new leaves every few weeks! so lovely
Turmeric & Galanga are very common here in Indonesia, I didn’t know that they could be very good in-house plants. Great video & very informative as always!
I have it as outdoor plant, but definitely work as indoor plant since the leaves easily dried out when the weather starts to rise. Speaking as people from a small city in Sumatra which is famous for its hot climate.
i just planted 2 turmeric and 3 plants came up. so happy i also have one galangal plant, I think. But its flower is very different from other galangals. Its flower has a fragrant of gardenia's
Thank you so much~ I'm followed your channel a few years, and maybe I will come to the UK next year, I'm an Asian and want to grow some ginger on my own. It's really great if I can meet you one day. You are pretty awesome~
I have a huge (culinary) ginger plant in my studio, but I suspect it’s all shoots. I’ve tried to peek at the tubers, but I don’t think they are very big. I suspect it’s because I grew it from a giant, intact mother root that had multiple sprouts. Next time I will separate the sprouts so they have more room to grow new tubers.
I grew culinary ginger indoors in a E facing window and then transplanted it outside when it warmed in spring. (I live in CT) It was a fun experiment it did well and grew to about 18” indoors. I think I may try turmeric...I do enjoy growing herbs and citrus indoors. Have you ever grow fennel? I’m thinking of trying it inside.
I actually started that bronze fennel (it's so beautiful) outside on my balcony, but it didn't last on the account of pigeons made a seating area in the planter (ha!) .... but when I get my garden up and going next year, I'd like to plant lots of fennel. That and parsley and dill are also the host plants for the swallowtail butterfly...
I tried to grow fennel outside, but I believe a mouse nipped it off at the base...I propagated from seed and it was still pretty small. I’ll keep trying ... darn critters 🐭
Inventiv vlogging: If the plants you display are not in bloom, take on the role of the blossom ;-) The green of the plants and the light and this magnificent dark pink was amazing! Incidentally: Saw yesterday the first time turmeric offered as rhizomes, in the supermarket (near Hamburg Germany).
Pity the go dormant. I have variegated shell gingers in my garden which I use instead. They are evergreen and much more beautiful with an amazing flower in early winter.
Thanks for this video, Summer. I haven't grown ginger this way before but I am curious to try it. My greatest struggle growing indoors is finding the right and affordable grow light solutions. P.S.: I love your outfit.
I planted a ginger rhizome in a tub on my deck this past spring. It is now a lush and beautiful tub of ginger BUT we are now one month away from our first frost date here in Dallas and I don’t know whether to dig it up and try to overwinter it in the house as a plant or simply harvest it and start all over next spring. Any thoughts? We typically have dramatic winters with mild days and 2 or 3 nights where it will hit the 20s or maybe lower.
This was an excellent video, really useful advice. I tried growing ginger and galangal in big pots in southern UK and nothing happened. I'm going to try to grow them in smaller pots in the greenhouse now. ps. I love your styling today, beautiful colours that flatter your complexion!
So nice of you....And yes, please do keep us informed how it goes in your neck of the woods with your ginger experiments. I posted today on my IG stories how the ginger I planted here has progressed.
Cool! For some reason I was under the impression that gingers grown indoors we very prone to spider mites, but maybe that's not the case with all of them.
This is so cool! i'm growing culinary ginger and turmeric, they both have recently developed stems and leaves from the unicorn tips. 🤗 I water them weekly, but what about the winter months, do i reduce the watering?
Love gingers - Hedichium are awsome for my temperate climate and thrive outdoors. Felt like youve missed a massive opportunity on Hedichium and Heliconia families as house plant - ever tried these as houseplant?.
My ginger is almost a month and a half old. The stems and leaves are nearly 4 feet tall and to the ceiling. Do I cut the stems and leaves back? Or put the pot on a lower surface?
Wonderful video! I have a big issue keeping indoor plants because most I find are toxic to cats and my kitty just won't stop! Would any of these put him in danger as well?
Do you grow Hedychium gingers? Tney are marginally hardy here - maybe zone 6 though I know someone who grows them successfully in Syracuse. I can offer you some. The deer will eat the foliage.
once again summer strikes and hits at the spot of oh yes, in asia we have this or use this or eat this ALL the time... so, why are we chasing / getting the $$$ house plants when I for one, didnt even realise how pretty galangal plant is. I use this soooo much in cooking, esp in thai food! thanks for video and love. again, goes to show - dont take common for granted! Love and light from SG
There's an online shop that I stalk every once in a while because they are always running out of stock and they recently added a variegated costus to their shop for £14 for a nice sized pot and I put it in my basket and kept on browsing but forgot about it. Couple of days later I went back to the site to complete the purchase the price shot up to £60!!! Really not happy with the state of the houseplant market. Plants I could get for £4 or £5 are now 5-6x more expensive a year later. And now we've got plant swap groups where people are upset when you decline to swap your hard-to-come-by-tropical-diva-behaving-terrarium-only-begonia for their small cutting of Tradescantia zebrina which a few days ago they had to ask the group how to take care of it! I'm not a plant snob but ya girl needs value for value swaps. Just needed to vent, rant over...
How did you get your culinary ginger so petite? My tallest shoots at the moment are around a couple feet tall- and they've only been planted for about a month now.
I’d love to see more episodes on growing edible plants indoor ❤️
Same! Just starting to grow some
so do i.
Especially for the winter coming
Yes agree
Definitely would love to see indoor edible growing!
Thanks for this, now i can grow my curcuma sumatrana indoor in my home 😁
My one-stop youtube channel for gardening.
Yes. I’m member to Tropical fruits club in south Florida. Our climate unique. We enjoy growing our fruits/ nuts/spices. Cinnamon,coffee,cacao’s etc.
I am experimenting with growing an edible ginger for the first time, I think it took two months to germinate at first and I forgot to note down when I planted it in soil but now it's pushing out a nice long leaf and it's so satisfying! Thank you for the explanation of the different types of ginger
You're most welcome. And love to see that many people here are already growing some gingers!
I have essentially 3 gardens, indoor (tropics), balcony (sunnier) and community back garden which has more shaded areas. This is perfect
That sounds dreamy!
@@summerrayneoakes I am a student at the RHS now so lets hope I can put it all into practice. Thanks for your continued content it has really informed my decision to study.
Gingers are so underappreciated! They are low maintainace and have pretty flowers and leaves.I have a backyard ginger garden and I've grown a few costus indoors. The ones that still indoors do not go dormant for me but they haven't grown super fast. They are pretty easy and do well under grow lights, that said gnats LOVE them.
I love growing gingers in my house. I have Zingiber officinalis 'Ginger' (conventional and organic have different leaves), Curcuma longa 'Turmeric' (red, orange, and yellow rhizome varieties), Curcuma amada 'Mango Ginger' (tastes like green mango, great pickled), Curcuma zedoaria 'Zedoary' or White Turmeric, Alpinia galanga 'Galangal' and a struggling Elettaria cardamomum 'Cardamom'. I grew a lot of these outdoors in the Bronx last year, started them in Early Winter, transplanted them in April, and harvested them in late October. I'll do the same at my new place here in Bed-Stuy. The galangal actually over-wintered outside and I harvested it late May before my move. I might have a slight obsession with Zingiberales
After watching a Martha Stewart episode on edible ginger, I decided to try growing some. I looked at Walmart, they were almost out, but there were a couple of very small pieces that looked like they would sprout, and put them in 4" pots. Then I put them in one larger pot, then another larger pot. I let them go dormant in my basement. This spring, I started watering, and when growth started, put the ginger in an 18" pot. That pot is now full and the ginger is 42" tall.
In a time of trending plants with gorging prices , this is so refreshing.
Thank you.
I live in Hawaii and the ginger that I love are the non-edible roots that has either white or yellow flowers. Those flowers have a very strong sweet scent used a lot in lei making.
Hedychium?
Here in Australia, my local council nursery has native ginger (Alpinia caerulea 'Red Back') in the house plant section. Every part of the plant has been used for culinary purposes by the Indigenous people for many years. It has attractive foliage and shade tolerant. Might be worth trying if you can get your hands on them in the US.
I have 3 kinds of gingers, black ginger, (Kaempferia parviflora) and two types of culinary. 4 types of turmeric, black knight, (Curcuma caesia) green, purple, (C. aeruginosa) orange, and galangal. Most of them, except for the culinary gingers, I ordered from overseas and almost didn't get them because of postal problems in Thailand. I did have variegated shell ginger but it did not like my yard and rotted. This is my first year growing gingers. They do not like Tennessee summers and have not produced anything underground. I'm hoping that letting them dry out a bit more between waterings may cause something to happen underground. I've just brought them all in for the winter. We'll have to see if we have any rhizomes for harvest next year. If these do well over the winter, I plan on ordering a cardamom plant.
Ooh, would liketo try cardamom. Love that spice! We sell the seeds at the health food store where I work, but I never thought about growing them. Interesting idea! I'm in NE Tennessee.
Thank you for sharing...."Santai Bersama Nanai"
Yes more episodes on edibles please!!! So informative thank you!
i have a kampferia here in india (outdoors) and is continuosly flowering for me & i love it sm !
I love to experiment here in the desert. I am currently growing figs, mandarin, apricot, persimmon, jujube, and fuji apple. Thanks for sharing your knowledge 🙏
I've grown culinary ginger indoors this year, really fun plants. Tall and gangly, the tallest at about 4 feet. I want to try turmeric next year too.
Totally reminds me of bamboo after they grow out!
I've grown both this year. Put them on the southwest facing window. The turmeric is taller and have lighter color leaves. Beautiful plants 🎋❣️
I have grown turmeric in a pot that I take out during warm months and take indoors in winter. Its over five years old now! I cut the leaves in winter and just make sure soil is moist and it grows back every spring.
Do u notice the smell she mentioned at start of this video? I bought grocery store ginger to plant; But, I’m hesitant after hearing this.
My dad plants a good sized plot of Zingiber cassumunar every summer and it's always a surprise to see all those rhizomes dug up!! The species cassumunar smells and tastes much more pungent than the officinale and is a bit smaller but really a tasty addition to traditional asian dishes.
And i have a costus erythrophyllus which i think is a great houseplant with those really thick strikingly coloured leaves
I have a ginger plant like your large one, I think it’s a Ginger Alpinia Zerumbet. Mine gives bell shaped cream/orange flowers and the plant is huge. I grow mine outdoors under a tree. I think there’s another one that gives pink flowers that is called Alpinia Kat... “something”. I only use my ginger plant leaves for tea. I also have a Peacock Ginger, that’s more of an ornamental plant, it’s used as a ground cover in Florida. I enjoy your videos. Keep up the good work.👍🏼👍🏼
i’ve been thinking about growing ginger & turmeric indoors so this video was super informative!
Who knew? There are so many different gingers...some edible, some not. This was interesting and educational. Your outdoor shade garden is lovely. Shade gardens are quite beautiful...hostas, astilbes (sp), pretty ground covers, ferns, and even some flowering plants take shade. I google a lot, and have found there are many varieties of plants that like those conditions.
Tried both culinary ginger and turmeric, both with very positive results. Never knew the leaves could be used as a spice too, that's amazing!
I just found in the trash today two large and kind of shallow pots 😁 They look perfect for trying my hand at growing ginger
_Alpinia formosana_ is my favourite ginger as a houseplant. Named the Pinstripe Ginger from its fine lines of variegation. Easy, fast-growing and spectacular white and red flowers. It can survive outside in the UK but thrives indoors in an East-facing window.
Of course the galangal used in much East and Southeast Asian cookery is a relative. That can be grown indoors from the commercial root but is not as pretty and a bit larger.
If you can find an Indonesian veg shop you may get the fresh roots of kentjoer, _Kaempferia galanga._ It needs heat and humidity but the cute little plants have decorative leaves and, if happy, will produce lots of short-lived but gorgeous white flowers with dark purple splotches. I grew that one for years from just a few plants grown from roots bought in an Indonesian shop. The taste of the root is a bit too camphory for my taste. I had a plant from Thomson & Morgan a few years before that was supposed to be _Kaempferia galanga_ but was a different species, possibly _Kaempferia pulchra._
Krachai is also found in Thai shops but will need more heat and humidity. _Boesenbergia pandurata._ It gets to about a metre tall and the flowers are tiny and close to the ground. More of a curiosity for the edible root than the decorative value.
In Indonesia name : Jahe, kunyit, kencur, sebagai bumbu dapur dan juga untuk obat dan di Indonesia tanaman tsb hampir disetiap rumah ditanam sbg "Apotik Hidup"
Thank you for adding the Indonesian names
Kaempferia ginger is my favourite
I have one edibile Ginger plant in my kitchen and others are outside in bright light area. Spiral Ginger plant also with me green and white leaves. Rainbow Ginger plant is very beautiful.
In Europe we have Asarum europeum, I collected some in forest last year and planted them in terrarium. They even flowered :)
Great video Summer, thank you. Just today I was thinking of planting my ginger because I am not using quick enough. And when I searched on how to grow ginger, your video came up 🤗. Thanks for sharing, I am definitely going to plant my ginger, super excited about it. 😘❤🌱🌸
I grow a "Midnight ginger" Zingiber malaysianum, It's gorgeous but probably requires more humidity than I can provide. The smell of the leaves is amazing! It's like a Christmas ginger, like ginger with dessert spices.
I grew a culinary ginger a few years back. Just a small root but it broke its pot in a month. Broke the next one a month after that. Is now in a large 3 foot by one foot planter and is on the verge of breaking it. It grows very fast.
Wow great. What kind of climate or situation do you have it in?
Haha that's amazing! You may need to plant it in a concrete pot or harvest that sucker!
@@aliciastrous1966 I live in Canada so it is indoors. My temperature is around 28-30 degrees Celsius (80-86F). Humidity is around 55% in room but probably closer to 70 around the pot. I have it against a south facing window and have a 75 watt draw LED grow bulb above it which I have on for 16-18 hours a day. The thing goes through close to a 2 gallons of water a week so watering is a constant chore. Though, its pot is huge so 2 gallons isn't that much given the size.
Edit for spelling.
@@summerrayneoakes second pot was concrete. Since I have up sized the pot as much as possible, harvesting is going to be my next option.
I live in FL and grow gobs of gingers: globbas, hedychiums, "grocery store gingers", curcumas, etc. Some can take quite a bit of sun and are pretty drought tolerant but ONLY if there is quite a bit of humidity. Cool growing some varieties inside the house.
I live in a subtropical country, and have failed to grow ginger inside, however I have several species in my small outdoor area. I will try again to grow it indoors, maybe closer to a window and water more often. Torch ginger is so beautiful with reddish green, I would love to have it in my bedroom window. Great video!
Torch ginger is FAB. I haven't tried it indoors, but I always love seeing them in botanical gardens. Beehive ginger too. One of my faves.
@@summerrayneoakes I brought inside a huge pot of torch ginger earlier this year, it died down very quickly, I also tried with variegated ginger last month and it also disintegrated. It could be that they get shocked to suddenly be indoors. I like beehive ginger too!
Indonesian here, ginger family en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zingiberaceae (locally known as temu-temuan) are abundant. Have lots of ginger family plants at my backyard (turmeric, ginger, galangal, cardamom etc)
Most of those plant are native from tropics, so here are some key you should follow if you grow it in cold area (even in snowy area like canada, russia, finland etc)
- heat, you can trick it with room heater or specialized heater for greenhouse
- humidity, cover your crops with plastic sheet if humidity level drop
- sunlight, use led growth light
It will add more cost but you cant plant any tropical plant without "modern tech" if you live in cold area
My favourite way to consume:
- ginger tea (locally known as wedang jahe)
- turmeric-tamarin juice (locally known as jahu kunyit asam)
Have been drink both of those on daily basis for years
Wish it useful for anyone who read this comment 🙏🙏🙏
*_online translator is your best friend if you dont know some word in indonesian_*
Hi..greetings frm singapore🇸🇬. I also grow ginger in a pot coz here in 🇸🇬 mostly ppl live in a flats🌆. Love all ur vids summer🥰😘
I've always wanted variegated ginger. maybe I'll grow some this year!
When you’re already growing ginger and turmeric as houseplants and Summer tell you it’s a good houseplant. Feeling validated and ahead of the game. So when do we harvest our ginger bounty?
I grew two pots of curcumin last year, they grew really tall but never bloomed, just died in the early winter, was so disappointed because the reason why I planted them was hoping I could see those beautiful pink flowers.
I have a Kaempferia galanga in my balcony and she's as happy as can be! I also live in tropical philippines, which helps. I love her purple flowers! I cant seem to stop it from growing new leaves every few weeks! so lovely
Turmeric & Galanga are very common here in Indonesia, I didn’t know that they could be very good in-house plants. Great video & very informative as always!
Give it a shot in your climate and let us know!
I have it as outdoor plant, but definitely work as indoor plant since the leaves easily dried out when the weather starts to rise. Speaking as people from a small city in Sumatra which is famous for its hot climate.
...Soooooo, I can grow culinary ginger in Florida!! I love, love culinary ginger. Happy growing.
Thank you for all the info.
ThanksSummer.
I plant decoratives as well as edible plants... Life is complete...
Suggest to see edible plant in next video.
I've been wanting for a while to grow ginger indoors so this should be good! 😄
Would be great to see you do it! Let us know how it goes.
Thank you so much. I had read that culinary ginger rhizomes require bottom heat to germinate - pleased to see that this is not true.
I grow ginger in basket and they grow so good 💚👍
i just planted 2 turmeric and 3 plants came up. so happy
i also have one galangal plant, I think. But its flower is very different from other galangals. Its flower has a fragrant of gardenia's
Wowww incredible community garden
Heucheras, dicentras, wild gingers
Thank you so much~ I'm followed your channel a few years, and maybe I will come to the UK next year, I'm an Asian and want to grow some ginger on my own. It's really great if I can meet you one day. You are pretty awesome~
Thank you, I did this and love my Ginger plant.
I have a huge (culinary) ginger plant in my studio, but I suspect it’s all shoots. I’ve tried to peek at the tubers, but I don’t think they are very big. I suspect it’s because I grew it from a giant, intact mother root that had multiple sprouts. Next time I will separate the sprouts so they have more room to grow new tubers.
I must have made this same mistake! I was so underwhelmed when I dug it up bc there was so much foliage
Good lessons to learn from! Thanks for sharing both of you!
Fantastic video! So much good info. You look amazing as well!
Thank you so much! Glad you liked it :)
I'm actually trying a ginger rhizome at the moment. I planted it a few weeks ago and I'm seeing a sprout appearing already
Same here! I hope you get a good harvest
yay! That's so much fun. Love to see many folks growing gingers here.
Your gingers may not be my gingers 😂
Very good tutorial.
I'm definitely going to try this.
Thank you for sharing such great and helpful information Summer🌸🦋
I have been trying turmeric and will bring it over inside. The live the foliage.
Love I meant
I grew culinary ginger indoors in a E facing window and then transplanted it outside when it warmed in spring. (I live in CT) It was a fun experiment it did well and grew to about 18” indoors. I think I may try turmeric...I do enjoy growing herbs and citrus indoors. Have you ever grow fennel? I’m thinking of trying it inside.
I actually started that bronze fennel (it's so beautiful) outside on my balcony, but it didn't last on the account of pigeons made a seating area in the planter (ha!) .... but when I get my garden up and going next year, I'd like to plant lots of fennel. That and parsley and dill are also the host plants for the swallowtail butterfly...
@@summerrayneoakes my fennel outside is hugh and the hummers love it here in MI.
I tried to grow fennel outside, but I believe a mouse nipped it off at the base...I propagated from seed and it was still pretty small. I’ll keep trying ... darn critters 🐭
Thank you for reminding me I needed to look up how I was going to plant my old ginger with green shoots in my kitchen;)
Inventiv vlogging: If the plants you display are not in bloom, take on the role of the blossom ;-) The green of the plants and the light and this magnificent dark pink was amazing! Incidentally: Saw yesterday the first time turmeric offered as rhizomes, in the supermarket (near Hamburg Germany).
I planted regular gingers from a grocery store in my garden and they are doing just great! I am ready to dig them out this weekend!🙂
I was just thinking about doing that for fun. Turmeric too.
The Zingiber looks just like the fresh ginger I can buy at the Baltimore farmers market!
I'd love to hear more about plants you can grow at home from store bought foods and plants.
I love the music! Where can I find the music?
Pity the go dormant. I have variegated shell gingers in my garden which I use instead. They are evergreen and much more beautiful with an amazing flower in early winter.
Thanks for contributing with the gingers you grow!
This is perfectly timed, I'm picking up my third ginger from the FWBG this weekend.
Love your episodes👍🏼
Beautiful plants...love it...I'm also a plant lover ❤
So cool ! Iam growing turmeric in a pot in my south facing balcony . U r amazing 💕
Keep us informed how it grows!
Hello friend I'm from Sierra Leone west Africa I am planning to do the same thing like you does I need many videos from you
btw turmerics have beautiful flowers, you may replant them to bigger pots and let them thrive to their biggest potential!
Thanks for this video, Summer. I haven't grown ginger this way before but I am curious to try it.
My greatest struggle growing indoors is finding the right and affordable grow light solutions.
P.S.: I love your outfit.
Gingers are so underrated houseplants.
I planted a ginger rhizome in a tub on my deck this past spring. It is now a lush and beautiful tub of ginger BUT we are now one month away from our first frost date here in Dallas and I don’t know whether to dig it up and try to overwinter it in the house as a plant or simply harvest it and start all over next spring. Any thoughts? We typically have dramatic winters with mild days and 2 or 3 nights where it will hit the 20s or maybe lower.
This was an excellent video, really useful advice. I tried growing ginger and galangal in big pots in southern UK and nothing happened. I'm going to try to grow them in smaller pots in the greenhouse now.
ps. I love your styling today, beautiful colours that flatter your complexion!
So nice of you....And yes, please do keep us informed how it goes in your neck of the woods with your ginger experiments. I posted today on my IG stories how the ginger I planted here has progressed.
Always wanted to make some clones, thanks for the tips!
Great video
how do you grow the asarum indoors over the winter then ?
Hello summer!
Cool! For some reason I was under the impression that gingers grown indoors we very prone to spider mites, but maybe that's not the case with all of them.
Any online stores recommendations for soil to grow culinary ginger?
Loved you ginger video. I’m trying to grow edible ginger. It so exciting to watch it grow.
This is so cool! i'm growing culinary ginger and turmeric, they both have recently developed stems and leaves from the unicorn tips. 🤗 I water them weekly, but what about the winter months, do i reduce the watering?
Ever consider making an Ikea Greenhouse Cabinet?
Love gingers - Hedichium are awsome for my temperate climate and thrive outdoors. Felt like youve missed a massive opportunity on Hedichium and Heliconia families as house plant - ever tried these as houseplant?.
If you plant it outside does it survive the winter?
I have a shaded patio and live in Northern California. Any plant recommendations?
My ginger is almost a month and a half old. The stems and leaves are nearly 4 feet tall and to the ceiling. Do I cut the stems and leaves back? Or put the pot on a lower surface?
Wonderful video! I have a big issue keeping indoor plants because most I find are toxic to cats and my kitty just won't stop! Would any of these put him in danger as well?
Hi I'm in UK and would love to try growing veragated ginger in home but whot do I get to grow
Do you grow Hedychium gingers? Tney are marginally hardy here - maybe zone 6 though I know someone who grows them successfully in Syracuse. I can offer you some. The deer will eat the foliage.
wow ! even i grow a species of ginger as my houseplant !
once again summer strikes and hits at the spot of oh yes, in asia we have this or use this or eat this ALL the time... so, why are we chasing / getting the $$$ house plants when I for one, didnt even realise how pretty galangal plant is. I use this soooo much in cooking, esp in thai food! thanks for video and love. again, goes to show - dont take common for granted! Love and light from SG
There's an online shop that I stalk every once in a while because they are always running out of stock and they recently added a variegated costus to their shop for £14 for a nice sized pot and I put it in my basket and kept on browsing but forgot about it. Couple of days later I went back to the site to complete the purchase the price shot up to £60!!! Really not happy with the state of the houseplant market. Plants I could get for £4 or £5 are now 5-6x more expensive a year later. And now we've got plant swap groups where people are upset when you decline to swap your hard-to-come-by-tropical-diva-behaving-terrarium-only-begonia for their small cutting of Tradescantia zebrina which a few days ago they had to ask the group how to take care of it! I'm not a plant snob but ya girl needs value for value swaps. Just needed to vent, rant over...
Englishmen have been growing gingers for millennia, and they grow well!
My ginger took about a month but its coming along
How did you get your culinary ginger so petite? My tallest shoots at the moment are around a couple feet tall- and they've only been planted for about a month now.