My Big Island Hawaiian Life: Adventures in Ginger

I love ginger I put it in nearly everything. Soup, tea, salad, we even use it to season our homemade sausage! I had a heck of a time finding some to grow though or even to buy at the super market. It all looks so unappetizing all brown and shriveled. Finally I started buying from our local markets. and this ginger was the freshest i'd ever seen. Cutting into it released the most heavenly ginger scent that drew all the occupants of our house to the kitchen to see what was cooking! after that first purchase I asked my ginger lady if she ever sold any of her ginger plants. I bought one from her a week later and promptly killed it! Purchased two more plants and they didn't last long either! One day she had the largest hunk of ginger I have ever seen! Of course I bought it! I decided that I would try and grow my own ginger from this massive hunk. It was a long process but it worked! As you can see in the pictures below I places it in a clear rectangle container and kept it on my kitchen counter. I would rinse it once every two to three days leaving no water standing in the container. After MONTHS, I didn't keep an accurate count sorry! I noticed it was sprouting! I promptly ran to my mother so she could rejoice with me! a few weeks after the sprouts had appeared I noticed the beginning of roots! So I took it out to my garden area I had reserved for planting my ginger. Where my failed ginger plants had already been planted. I laid it on the surface of the dirt and just lightly dusted the top with some dirt and covered it in mulch.