How To Grow Ginger: How To Grow, Harvest, Use, and Perpetuate This Tropical Spice in a Non-tropical Climate

By Leigh Tate

Ginger is a tropical spice that is easy to grow, and this little guide will help you get started. You'll learn how to select rhizomes for planting, how to plant, how to care for your growing ginger, when and how to harvest, how to keep a continual supply growng, various methods of storing and preserving ginger, plus some unique and useful ways to use it. If you love to grow pretty plants and eat good food, then this is for you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Leigh Tate
• Release date: Mar 6, 2016
• ISBN: 9781311967640

Leigh Tate

Leigh Tate has always loved living close to the land. From the back-to-the-land movement to the modern homesteading movement, the agrarian lifestyle is the one she says feels like home. She and her husband currently homestead five acres in the foothills of the Southern Appalachians. Their vision is to become as self-sustaining as possible by stewarding their land, animals, and resources. Leigh's homesteading activities include gardening, food preservation, foraging, raising goats, chickens, and guinea fowl, herbs, cheese making, permaculture landscaping, spinning, weaving, knitting, sewing, quilting, natural dying, soapmaking, wood cookstove cookery, and renovating their old 1920s farmhouse.

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The Little Series of Homestead How-Tos

from 5 Acres & A Dream

How To Grow Ginger

how to grow, harvest, use, and perpetuate

this tropical spice in a non-tropical climate

by Leigh Tate

Kikobian Books

www.kikobian.com

Text & photos copyright © 2016 by Leigh Tate.

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Published: March 6, 2016

Revised: December 7, 2020

Contents

Preface

Why Grow Ginger?

How To Select Rhizomes for Planting

How To Plant

How To Keep Your Ginger Plants Happy

Pests and Diseases of Ginger

How To Keep a Continual Supply

How To Harvest

How To Store

To Peel or Not To Peel?

How to Make Crystallized Ginger

How To Dehydrate Ginger

How To Make Ginger Powder

How To Lacto-ferment Ginger

How To Make a Ginger Bug

Medicinal Uses

Now, Go Grow Some Ginger!

Glossary

Bibliography

About the Author

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