Ginger management
First, soak ginger rhizomes for over night to stimulate growing tips for sprouting and avoid using dried and ragged ones. Good rhizomes will sink and bad ones float.
Additionally in a container, ginger is grown in 20-25cm of soil depth and it grows horizontal sub surafce rhzomes hence fill up the container with quality potting mix and place ginger on top 4-6 inches apart and cover with more mix. Water the plants after planting and keep it moist to sprout in 2-4 weeks and indoors, soak ginger first over a night.
Maked a shallow tray of an inch of moist cocnut fibre and place ginger 1-2 inches apart on top and cover with more fibre and keep it at 30 degrees centigrade. Ginger sprout in a week and transplanted a month later and keep plants above 70 degrees fahreinheight all times and expose to full sun of 6 hours and above.
Furthermore, being a water loving plant and apply balanced NPK however, ginger is a long crop of 6 months plus and are fed 3 times that is to say during planting, at 2 months and a month before harvest.
Ginger is harvested in 7-8 months and baby rhizomes at 4 months and is mature when leaves and shoots begin to fall.
Finally, mature rhizomes can be kept for along period of time.
