Texas Gardening: pinstripe (?) ginger, 1 by podster

podster wrote:
I have grown ginger from the grocery store. You plant the hand of ginger horizontal to the soil and bury it only an inch or so under the topsoil. The one I planted has produced many more hands but never delivered a bloom.

If you buy one from the store, find one that has "eyes" like a potato does. The plants grow from the eyes. That was what made me plant one the first time. They were green and appeared to be ready to sprout. It is not a pretty foliage but an edible ginger...