How to Pick Wild Ginger

Scouting around in the fields and woods of the countryside may provide a needed respite from the fast-paced world. With an eye on the foliage, you may go home with more than just exercise if you know what plants to look for. When you locate wild ginger growing in a woodsy area, you have found a beneficial plant that can provide seasoning for many different culinary dishes. Remember where the wild ginger grows so you can revisit the spot to pick more.

Garden trowel
Pruning shears
Bucket

Instructions

- 1
  Locate the wild ginger growing in the woods. Wild ginger grows about 4 to 6 inches tall with medium-green leaves in a large heart shape. Wild ginger blooms in spring with distinctive three-petaled flowers in a dark maroon color.
- 2
  Insert the tip of the garden trowel into the soil between two wild ginger plants. Push the tip of the trowel into the soil and then locate the roots of the ginger plant.
- 3
  Cut about 2 inches of root system from the wild ginger plant using the pruning shears. Place the root in the bucket.
- 4
  Firm the soil back down with your hands to cover the roots again.
- 5
  Repeat the same process at another spot about 2 to 3 feet away in the wild ginger patch.
- 6
  Harvest wild ginger twice a year from the same patch.

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