Tips on How to Grow Ginger The Right Way

In this article I want to share about how to grow ginger. First, let’s do some review about what is ginger.  Ginger is one of the most sought-after spices for Indonesian society due to its popularity as a medicine and also as a way to warm the body. Because of this function ginger is one of the plants that has medicinal property on its pseudo stem.

Not only that, ginger is in the same family as other medicinal herbs such as curcuma, curcuma aeruginosa, turmeric, and also galangal. Ginger on its root is a spice originating from Asia Pacific, starting from India onto China.

Therefore, with the many benefits that’s possessed by this spice called ginger, not a small amount of people is trying their best to cultivate grow it. For more information on how to grow ginger, please refer to these articles

1. Choosing seed

In order to get the best results, it’s best for us to use a high-quality ginger seed too. It’s preferred for these seeds to meet the requirements of quality standards that healthy plants with genetic quality possesses. A seed with high physiologic quality means that the plant will have a high percentage to grow up healthy, whereas a good physical quality means that the seed be free from pests and diseases when planted.

After choosing the seed for ginger that’s going to be used, a seeding process is recommended so that the seed is ready for planting.

2. Ginger seeding technique

The seeding technique is basically done in order to uniform the seeds that’s going to be planted. It’s best to germinate the ginger seed after choosing it. Seeding ginger can be done using these techniques:

Seedbed technique

Make a 10 x 8 meters space, it’s not needed to be fancy because this will be used to seed the ginger plant. On the inside of the space will be created a seedbed that is made of hay, then put a ginger rhizome on top of it before putting another hay.

Repeat the same thing until 4 layers of it are formed, with the topmost part being hay. Next thing to do is to take care of the seed in the seedbed by watering it daily and spraying it with fungicide in order to prevent parasites.

3. Cultivating the growing media

In order to get the best result when sowing, it’s preferred for the soil to have the properties in order to grow ginger on it. For example, pay attention to the acidity of the soil that’s going to be used, if it’s going to be used to plant ginger, you can use chalk to increase or reduce the acidity of the soil.

When we initiate the cultivation of growing media, we can plough the soil using shovel, make sure to plough the used soil as deep as 30 centimetres, this is done in order to turn the soil into loose soil, other than that, doing this will also dispose of the toxin in the soil and while also killing bacteria and pests.

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4. Ginger planting technique

After preparing the soil that’s going to be used, the next thing to do is the planting of the ginger itself. Do the mono-culture pattern if the soil used classified as rational, this can result in a higher production of ginger.

5. Drying and watering

After planting them, it’s best to decide when to water the plan itself. Ginger on its root doesn’t need too much water, but watering it during planting until rainy season is still recommended as it helps the early growth of the plant. After the season ends, make sure to water it once every day to make sure the soil is not too dry.

6. Stitching

In the time span of 2-3 week after planting, it’s best to do stitching to the dead plants or an abnormal one.

The stitching must be done quickly so the replaced plants have the same interval as others. It’s also worth mentioning to choose the best seed so that the stitched plants grow up normally.

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7. Weeding

In the time span of 2-4 weeks after planting, the next best thing to do is weeding. But in order to weed out, an attention to the weed that grow out near ginger is required

Then, the second weeding will be done when entering 3-6 weeks old age. If the age of the ginger is somewhere between 6 to 7 months, it’s no longer necessary to do weeding again because the ginger already have large rhizomes.

8. Heaping

Because ginger is the type of plant that requires a good air rotation, the soil used to plant it should always be loose. The other reason for heaping to be done is to hoard against the ginger rhizomes that grew so that they come out of the soil

9. Fertilizing

Fertilizing using organic fertilizer is very recommendable to any plant as it avoids the usage of chemical compound to the plant. That’s why using compost or manure is one of the best choices if you want to fertilize organically.

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Administrating organic fertilizer can actually be done at the early stages of planting. The administration of fertilizer is enough just by sprinkling it on the area of the plant that have been decided with recommended dosage of fertilizer.

10. Giving pesticide

If ginger is afflicted with pests and or other parasites, it’s best to give pesticide as a part of daily care to avoid permanent failure in planting ginger. Giving pesticide can be done by spraying it and should be started when storing the seed from seeding.

11. Sowing

Sowing is a process that’s long awaited by most people. But for ginger, the sowing is divided into a couple of plants. If the ginger that has been planted is going to be used as a spice on food, then we can plant ginger for just 4 months by breaking the rhizomes.

But if the ginger is to be sold on the market, we can sow the ginger when it’s 10 – 12 years old. The characteristic of a ripe ginger is when the leaves changed colour from green into yellow, and when the stem is a bit dried out.

That is all the tips and the way to plant a ginger the correct way, we hope that today article can be useful to the reader.

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