And you love taste of ginger? Saturated and fresh, leaving a light tart note? M-mm … fantasy! It appears, it is possible not only to buy ginger in shop, but also to grow up most. And it is quite simple.
Ginger history as spicery and drugs consigns the roots to the distant past. And, if to make a desperate attempt in it to glance, that is chance not to reach landing. This story is so fascinating and various. If all of you aimed to plant ginger, but not to study, then — dare! Process this not less interesting and quite simple.
Preparatory work
What to begin with? First of all it is worth deciding on landing material. It is no secret, that that ginger which flaunts in shops a plant isn't. These are only its rhizomes. But they are also intended for the subsequent landing. If you have a giving, and climate in which you live, damp then can safely plant ginger and to the open ground.
In house conditions ginger feels just remarkably. The most successful time for landing of a fruit — the end of winter beginning of spring when there is more light and the sun. It is possible to get it in any shop or in the market.
When choosing a root it is necessary to pay attention to some nuances important for further landing: examine a root — to the touch it has to be smooth and quite dense, without roughnesses and the flaking peel. At it there have to be several live kidneys.
Classical option of landing of ginger
Before to put the chosen good back to the earth, carry out the preparatory procedure: wet it in weak solution of potassium permanganate and sustain two-three hours, then wash out and you pass to the following step. Then the back needs to be taken in a plastic bag until the first eyes appear. Here the same cunning works, as at potatoes prorashchivaniye. When eyes grow up, it is possible to start division.
Take a back both easily and safely divide into two equivalent halves. It is important to make it so that on each copy there was at least one live kidney. That wounds dragged on quicker and ginger hadn't to suffer long, powder places of a cut with charcoal.
Now I came it is time to transplant backs on pots. For a start on a bottom put a drainage. It can be pebble or sand – choose that is pleasant to you more. Fill from above in advance prepared fertile earth and put in it backs. Put them so that the arisen kidney appeared from above, and then fill up with a layer of the earth of centimeter on two.
If you the gardener virtuoso and at you are free time, then the way can be paved and independently. Mix the turf, humus and sand in the ratio 1:1 and use directly. For such care the plant will only tell you thanks.
At this stage it is necessary only to water plants regularly. Ginger hates a drought. He got used to live in a humid climate therefore always you watch a condition of the soil, don't allow it to dry up.
Care for escapes gently and tremblingly, and the result won't keep itself waiting long. Very quickly, in one-two months the first boring will appear.
In hot hot summer days, ginger can be carried on a balcony or at the dacha to take out on the street. Only protect from direct sunshine. After all tropical handsome doesn't love the scorching sun. Don't forget to prikapyvat the soil from time to time.
In height the escapes can be extended to meter.
With arrival of fall when sprouts already wither, the rhizomes need to be dug out, cleaned and sent for storage to the dry place till the next season. Naturally, for half a year, they will expand and them will become much more. You can safely use a part of roots for the needs: crumble in salads, draw teas, use them as medicine. And other part let lies and waits for the hour of triumph.
This process can be repeated from year to year, increasing experience and quantity of such incredibly useful plant.
Storage conditions of roots
If the rhizome is fresher, then it is possible just to put it in the fridge, on the lower shelf. There it will quietly lie month. At the dried and crushed ginger a period of storage much longer — it can be stored up to four months.
About useful properties of a fruit
Ginger — not only food product, but also excellent folk remedy from many illnesses. Chinese call it "a life root" and souls in it don't hope. Fresh, marinated, salty – east inhabitants adore it in any kind. Not without reason any sushi don't do without it. And as ginger in cold weather is great.
Making it together with honey, a lemon and cinnamon, you will be saved from slight seasonal colds. Ginger has pronounced immunomodulatory property that is especially relevant for residents of big cities.
At the expense of rich mineral and vitamin composition he is capable to have positive impact on an alimentary system. At the same time in it it isn't enough calories. Nutritionists recommend to use regularly this product to the people who persistently decided to lose weight.
Earlier, in the Middle Ages when ginger was only delivered to our regions, it was even used in fight against plague. In those days fruit "hunters" were ready to give for it fabulous money.
It is difficult to overestimate advantage and value of ginger. This original fruit — just vitamin bomb warming in the winter, encouraging in the summer and supporting in off-season. And if you still think — to experiment or not, then decide rather! Tasty to you salads, fragrant tea and good health!