As the saying goes, it is good to eat radish and ginger in winter. Ginger can be used not only for cooking, but also for seasoning. It is also good and simple to grow ginger on the balcony. You don't have to spend money to plant it, and you don't need to buy a flowerpot. Just take it off the balcony when you want to eat, and beautify the room and purify the air.
When do you plant ginger on the balcony?
The annual sowing time of ginger is roughly in the middle and late April. If you plant it on your balcony, you can also plant ginger at the end of March and the beginning of April, because the indoor temperature is slightly higher than the outdoor temperature.
Steps of planting ginger on balcony
1, choose Jomally.
When we plant ginger, we should put the whole ginger in river sand and keep the temperature above 10 degrees, and it will sprout soon. When the bud point is about 1 cm long, cut the ginger with bud and air it for a day or two.
2. Select a container
Generally speaking, containers with a diameter greater than 20 cm and a height greater than 30 cm should be selected. Because the ginger under it will gradually expand and occupy more places, and then cultivated in fertile soil, you can use nutrient soil with good permeability.
Step 3 plant
Before planting, add some organic fertilizer to the soil and spread a thin layer of soil on the bottom of the flowerpot. Then sprinkle with a layer of fermented sheep manure. If the taste is too strong, it can be replaced with special fertilizer. Just put one or two buds in the pot, not too much, then cover it with soil and pour water in a sunny place.
Key points of planting ginger on balcony
1, fertilization
When Jomally grew up, he gradually increased the light and watered it with some organic fertilizer to make it grow more vigorously. He buried chicken manure in a pot of soil, covered it with a little soil and poured water on it.
Step 2 cover the soil
Cracks will appear in the soil during the growth of ginger, which proves that its underground roots expand rapidly. Add soil in time, so that its roots will grow bigger and its nutrients will be richer.
3. Lighting equipment
If you keep it on the balcony, you can put it in a sunny place in other seasons. Because the light is not very strong, but the high temperature light is very strong in summer, the leaves are prone to blackening at the scorching edge, which needs shade protection to avoid the burning of the scorching sun.