How to grow celery, garlic ,onions & ginger at home
Now that spring has arrived, its time to work in your garden. I love growing vegetables and herbs in my garden they just require little attention and care.
Ginger
Ginger is widely used as a spice or a folk medicine . They are juicy and fleshy with a very mild taste, often pickled in vinegar or sherry as a snack or cooked as an ingredient in many dishes. Ginger can be steeped in boiling water to make ginger tisane, to which honey is often added; sliced orange or lemon fruit may be added. Ginger can be made into candy, or ginger wine, which has been made commercially since 1740. It is most common ingredient found in everyone pantry and the good news is very easy to re-grow.
Simply plant a spare piece of ginger rhizome (the thick part you cook with) in potting soil with the newest buds facing upward. Ginger enjoys filtered, not direct, sunlight in a warm moist & humid environment.
Before long it will start to grow new shoots and roots. Once the plant is established pull up the whole plant including roots. Remove a piece of the rhizome, and re-plant it to repeat the process.
Ginger also makes a very attractive house-plant, so if you don’t want to use a lot of ginger in your cooking you can still decorate your room with this lovely plant
Garlic
Garlic is considered one of the healthiest food and is proven scientifically. Garlic is considered to be containing some cancer-protective properties .
You can re-grow a plant from just a single clove . Keep 1-2 unused and after some weeks it will be sprouted like shown in fig.
Just plant it, root-end down, in a warm position with plenty of direct sunlight. The garlic will root itself and produce new shoots. Once grown properly, cut back the shoots and the plant will put all its energy into producing a tasty big garlic bulb. Then enjoy the original homegrown flavor of garlic and chives.
Onions
Onions are one of the easiest vegetables to propagate. Just cut off the root end of your onion, leaving a ½ inch of onion on the roots. Place it in a sunny position in your garden and cover the top with soil. Ensure the soil is kept moist. Onions prefer a warm sunny environment, so if you live in a colder climate, keep them in pots and move them indoors during frostier months.
As you use your home-grown onions, keep re-planting the root ends you cut off, and you’ll never need to buy onions again.
Celery
chop the celery stalks from the base of the celery you bought from the store and place it in a bowl filled with water.
After a few days, you should start to see roots and new leaves appear. After a week or so, transplant it into soil with just the leaves showing above the level of the soil. The plant will continue to grow, and within a few weeks it will sprout a whole new head.
Alternatively you can plant your cutting directly into soil (without starting the process in water) but you will need to keep the soil very moist for the first week until the new shoots start to appear.