I’m having some men come in with chainsaws, trimmers, root grinders and leaf blowers in a few days time, so I’ve been taking this opportunity to assess what I want to keep in the garden and what can go.  Since they’ll be working on top of my bulb bed, I decided it was a good time to lift them, and then replant them in March (our autumn) when I have a greater vision of where they’d do best.  In one bed, a few years ago I had planted some ginger.  It was nestled under the cover of the rampant lemongrass.  I saw that it did shoot last summer, but then died down.  I had assumed it was dead, and didn’t go and investigate (mostly because I was whacked out on pain killers, and couldn’t care less!).  The lemongrass is getting the chop, so while I was working on that bed I thought I would see if I still had ginger growing.

It appears I did.  Yum, who’s for a stir fry?  Ginger – $19.98kg.  Street value – $1.20.