Before I went on holiday I did something I have been meaning to do for a long time, and bought myself a piece of ginger root to grow.


Ginger

I had a lot of things (gardening and otherwise) to do before I went, so when I read in Asian Vegetables that ginger can be safely left at room temperature for a couple of weeks, to sprout, I left my root on my desk.


Ginger root & shoot

Sure enough, when I came home it was starting to sprout. Yesterday I potted it up (bud facing upwards, about 5 cm deep, as instructed) and now ‘Ginger Rogers’ is sitting on my bedroom windowsill where it’s hot and sunny.