Harvest Home Grown Organic Ginger In A Pot

Sometime last year, I had placed a couple ginger rhizome in a large pot and decided to harvest today.  I believe it has been roughly about 10 months ago when I first placed some store bought ginger in the pot.  The pot was first kept under my porch and later moved it under a bougainvillea plant.

The Ginger in the pot

First I loosen the soil around the outer area of the rhizomes and than held all of the branches (if you call them that) and pulled out the ginger plant.

Pulling Ginger Plant

Close up of the ginger rhizome

There were a few rhizome that was small and decided to put them back in the pot....hopefully didn't stress the plant to much and these will give me another harvest.

Rhizome the be planted back

Planted back rhizome

 Proceeded to wash the rhizome in a pail and removed the small roots.

Cleaned Ginger

Next I dried the ginger under a shade for about 2 hours and placed them in the refrigerator to be used over the coming days.

Ginger to be stored

Roughly harvested about half a kilo of ginger.