The literature on how to start ginger plants from a store-bought ginger piece recommends getting a piece of ginger with "lots of eyes."I missed my ginger anatomy class but somehow managed to navigate through life blissfully unaware of ginger secretly staring at me, and ignorant to the fact that -perhaps I was eating a ginger's leg when a recipe called for an arm or ear...so I decided to post these shots.
See the green thingies protruding on the bottom right? Those are the eyes!
Below there is another photo where the eye is a bit more prominent (that one below would be a Unicorn Ginger...I guess).
These things take for ever to root, so my recommendation, if you are as impatient as I am, is to put them in a pot, half buried in nice soil & place the pots outside in a nice shady area (ginger does not like sun) water enough to keep the soil moist but don't check on them all the time or you'll go insane.
I placed my ginger rhizomes behind a plant so that each time I watered the garden I'd also water the ginger without seeing the pots and them being a constant reminder of how slowly they grow.
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