Ginger Growing from Store-Bought Ginger Roots!

Ginger root is an incredible addition to almost all styles of cuisine, and it's surprisingly easy to grow. There are a few different methods you can use, all of which work well. Some people just cut pieces of ginger, making sure a few eyes are on each piece and plant directly.

In this video, we are going to be growing ginger from the store by starting it off in bowls of water. Once new shoots and roots start developing from the growth nodes, we can either plant them directly in the soil, or snap them off and plant those pieces directly into the soil.

Growing ginger in containers is easy, too - it loves a nutrient-rich, moist soil and plenty of sun. So long as you give it those two things, it'll grow vigorously and will be ready to harvest about ~4 months from planting.

In a perfect world, you'd plant ginger in the spring for a fall harvest, but depending on your climate you can get away with either a shorter or longer growing season.

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[optheavenheartsthehomele]

Love how you don’t waste time talking about yourself or why you took all day to upload the vid lol 😝 simple and straight to the point! Thank you!!!

[donaldjones]

Grown ginger last year in a 2 X 4 foot raised bed. Planted about 8 rhizome pieces. I now have more ginger than I know what to do with. Given a lot of it away, but still have probably 20 lbs still in the ground. Very easy to grow here in Georgia. Lots of water, well draining soil, and shade from the hot summer sun. Good luck to everyone.

[tracybrown]

I raised ginger from the store this last year. Planted 4 smaller fingers in May, ended up with 5 pounds in December. Dried and fresh. Pickling next year

[Guttergirl]

That's it? Gawd, a neighbor gave me a HUGE explanation about growing ginger! She made it sound SO complicated! 😂I'll show her! THANK YOU❤❤❤❤❤

[allaboutmycats]

Why can’t everyone explain it so easily? Thank you!😄

[Whatsername]

Really useful info ~ to the point ~ no yammering on about things that don't help. Great video. Thank you!

[cynthiabrown]

I'm going to try my hand at growing ginger. This video sold me. Thanks so much.
Happy growing everyone !!❤

[TheRealAestuo]

THIS is the ginger planting video I was looking for. Well done. Thank you very much.

[PopeyeModesto]

Right on! I finally found your channel man. Out of the different gardeners on here, you are very direct, to the point every time and knowledgeable. Thank you for sharing your green thumb! Happy planting

[georgiawild]

I bought an organic ginger just for planting and am ready to go! I was going to opt for just putting it in soil, but after watching this, I think I'll do the water method. I live in the Rocky Mountains so it will be nice not to have to have a pot of dirt sitting around for awhile, lol. Thank you!

[maryjunak]

I learn and grow as a beginner gardener from almost every video of yours I've watched. Thanks for sharing and blessing my garden with your like button cultivation!

[ProfessionalAquarian]

after two months .... I have sprouts! so exciting!

[TechBearSeattle]

One thing to keep in mind is that the edible part of the ginger plant is a rhizome, not a tuber or a root. Rhizomes grow best only partially buried, or buried very shallowly.

[leilajenkins]

This is such a simple video! Do you have tips on what to do with the ginger once harvested? Like, how to dry it?

[loriekey]

I am currently growing my ginger (from store bought rhyzomes) entirely indoors, just in pots with no extraordinary care. I keep the soil moist but not too moist as it will rot. The growth seems to be cyclical. Sometimes I can see new shoots (like right now) and sometimes it seems to die back. Last time it died back, I decided that was it and started to dig everything up and out when I unearthed some new little shoots that were green and just starting to grow. OOPS! I carefully put the little shoots back in the pot and they are doing nicely now. When we stayed at a VRBO in Costa Rica, the yard had ginger and lemon grass growing and we dug up a little of each every day for suppers. I like keeping my tall ginger on a table at my front picture window and looking through it like I'm in the jungle, the mighty jungle. 😆❤️👍🏻🌱🌱🌱 Oh. And I have lemongrass growing in a pot that I grew from store bought lemongrass. The lemongrass seems to be a bit slower to create new plants than the ginger.

[jayhershey]

Thank you for showing me how to grow ginger. I would not have thought of breaking off the root mass and of separating the plants. You did a good thing.

[tf]

Straight and to the point-why I subscribed

[gurdeepgrewall]

Thank you for your quick and short video on 'how to grow ginger'.

[southernskytngarden]

Even though you posted this several years ago, I am following the tips and starting some today

[zariah_]

You did a fantastic job explaining this. I’m on my way to the fridge to get my ginger to start the process. Thank you very much for the information/growing advice!