Culinary ginger

This year almost every Christmas event had lot and lots of freshly brewed ginger beer.

On the whole, fresh ginger was available in abundance for this season and the price was good too.

Zingiber officinale commonly called culinary ginger comes from the Zingiberaceae family and originated from South-East Asia. Ginger is a perennial plant and grows well in the tropics from rhizomes. It takes approximately 10 months to produce a crop of rhizomes. Plant the ginger rhizomes roughly 2 feet apart in a well-prepared bed enriched with