How to grow ginger at home?

How to grow ginger at home? Ginger is easy to grow in a flat and does not need frequent treatment; with a few precautions you can produce rhizomes (tubers) very beneficial properties are edible.

You can start planting a tuber (cool), supplied by a farmer or purchased in store. Make sure that the rootstock is cool and having little gems (growing shoots) Horn-shaped: If you purchased a bulb in the store would be better to leave it in water overnight prior
the pricking, may have been treated with a fire retardant of growth.

The soil must be of good quality, must be rich enough to feed the plant, must retain moisture so that the plant is not dry but at the same time, must be able to drain freely for non-tuber and root rot.

A soil made from 50% a good compost and a sandy soil (or drainage) is ideal: compost provides nutrients and retain moisture, while the sandy soil ensures an excellent drainage.

The best time of transplanting potted is the late winter/early spring: choose a luminous position, but where does not beat the Sun and sheltered from the wind.
If the rhizome has more buds of growth you can also cut it into several pieces, each with at least a couple of gems, and find more plants by a single tuber.
Plant the ginger (ginger) approximately 10 cm deep, with shoots growing upwards.

The ginger plant does not occupy big space, each Rhizome produces little foliage that grows and infoltisce, clump, very slowly, growing in height at maximum of about one meter. A jar of 35/40 cm in diameter can accommodate up to three plants, duly spaced 15/20 cm.

Ginger needs moisture: the soil should never dry, even soggy, but otherwise the bulb and plant roots are rotting. If the air in your home is too dry you can use a spray/vaporiser to hydrate the plant. You may also want to consider humidified correctly, naturally, the domestic air, because the your lungs, as well as the plants will dry out in dry air.

In late summer, when temperatures begin to subside, reduce water and leaves pure dry land: this encourages the ginger Rhizome production.
When all the leaves are dried ginger is ready for harvesting.
Choose a few pieces collected by replanting.

The rhizomes re-buried or left in the ground do not require water or attention to rising temperatures.

If the soil plant growth is rich enough, the plant doesn't need on the other (each year you can enrich the soil with a good compost).


Ginger loves shaded sites, filtered Sun, humidity, heat, and rich soil. (what you can expect from a tropical plant?)

Ginger does not tolerate cold weather, direct sunlight, strong winds and dry land or full of water.