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Growing Gingers Gingers have a rush-like stem that flattens out at the top, and it's quite attractive. It grows indoors and needs really warm conditions outside. They like bright light, and warmth, and it won't stand water-logging, if you over-water it the roots can rot very quickly. Its habit is for the leaves to just drop off in the autumn. If you harvest it before the leaves drop off, the rounded swellings at the base of the leaves are stem ginger. If you wait till the leaves have dropped off, then it's turned into root ginger, it's hardened and tougher. It's still edible. As long as the base didn't actually rot away, what you'll find if you dig it up is that you've got an enormous hand of ginger underneath the soil. Dig it out and you'll see some nice new green buds which you can cut off, allow them to dry at the base, pot them up and start them off as a new crop for this year.

Contributed by Phildave on April 16, 2008, at 9:51 AM UTC.

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