...and, no, I'm not talking about the one trapped on the island with Gilligan. I'm also not talking about the hair color or its reference in a "South Park" episode (I'd say a controversial "South Park" episode but I think that's somewhat redundant, don't you?). No, I'm talking about the root, which seems to be the ingredient of choice for many a trendy signature cocktail and all sorts of other dishes as well.
On our way back from Maui, we noticed ginger being sold at the airport so I decided that perhaps I should learn what goes into growing this little root and bought a White Ginger root, along with a Blue Ginger root, which it ends up is not a ginger at all but a tropical plant that resembles ginger. So, here are the two gingers -- the white and the fake blue -- planted in their starter containers along with the rose and lavender cuttings and the last Marina di Chioggia melon I harvested from my garden during a big clean-out (below right). It's definitely a time of transition in the garden so I figured it could use a good hair cut and that's what it got.
In related news, the first day I was home from Maui I had voice-mail messages from the city of Santa Monica saying they'd never received my community garden contract or payment for the year. That's probably because they never sent me the contract or request for payment. So I ran over the next morning and made sure the contracts were signed and the payment received -- heaven forbid I have to take a stand to defend my "land." Then this weekend I did the clean-out and somewhere along the line lost my garden key. The garden's in great shape, it's supposed to rain here in Southern California all week and and I'm off on a trip to Quebec until next Sunday so hopefully between now and then the key will show up and, who knows, maybe I'll have some agricultural goodie from Canada that's being used in all their trendy signature cocktails to plant alongside the ginger.
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