We were out of ginger to cook with, and decided to see if our home-grown ginger was ready to be used. After all, the clump was about 8 months old and had expanded quite a bit. So, spade in hand, we went a-digging.
Our first clump of young ginger!
It wasn’t a clump that you’d throw a parade for, but it was our first – not to be scorned – young ginger. After all, it grew from one of these thumb-sized pieces of ginger below:
Cut pieces of ginger rhizomes with growing buds.
Pretty cool, huh? 
I can’t wait to see what an older clump will look like!
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