Ginger is another plant that grows here without my intervention. It isn’t true “Accidental Gardening” (which is what i call the self-seeding of various edible plants in my garden, like verdolaga or cherry tomatoes) because i planted it intentionally after a piece of ginger i had bought to cook with had sprouted roots. I had enough for 4 different clumps of roots that were planted in pots for awhile, then moved over to a spot on our property.

I have never dug up the roots of ginger to use, and probably wouldn’t have thought to do it now, but I wanted to make a recipe for Sweet and Savory Asian Chicken Drumsticks that just wouldn’t wait, and I had run out of fresh ginger, which seemed like a critical ingredient. I was thinking of using dry … and browsing through some google articles about ginger when i remembered that i actually have some ginger plants growing in the back yard.

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We have three different types of lemons in our yard … limón real, which is a local variety that are as large as large grapefruits and contain about a gallon of juice, export lemons, which are the size of lemons you find in north american grocery stores, and this variety, which is the most common around here, and are small and prolific with an excellent lemonade-quality juice.

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This is the third post about lilies in the last couple of weeks … and covers the three types of lilies I have planted outside of the office windows … all of which have bloomed one after the other. This giant specimen is the last of the three.

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