I'm the former owner of a cooking school in Thailand. After moving to western Mexico I was lucky enough to be given a galangal plant by a Thai restaurant owner. I repotted it into a large pot in which it grew to about a meter high, before I was able to convince my landlady to let me plant in the backyard behind our apartment building. However the only spot she would allow me to put is in full shade. It's been there for about 6 weeks and has spread out a bit, but any upward growth is barely noticeable. I believe it will survive but I don't expect it to thrive without sun, nor do I expect the rhizomes to ever get as plump as the ones in this delightful video. I'm grateful for what I have though, galangal is unknown here and not to be found for sale anywhere.
Galangal is an everyday spice in Cambodian cooking. It's used for fermenting vegetable and Cambodian sausage. It's also used in soup and marinating meats.
I've been trying to get it for over 2 years in south africa. A week ago my hubby found two plants at a nursery and boy I cried like a baby. 🤣🤣🤣I am so protective of this plant 🤗🤗🤗
Your video is very informative. Thank you. I’m Vietnamese and my mom cooks galangal very often. I remember seeing the galangal growing around my grandparents ‘s house. I like to grow them here in US, but don’t know how to grow them well until I saw your video. Thanks again; now I know what to do
This was super helpful. I have three clumps of rhizomes I ordered and am going to start growing my crop now using your directions! Greetings from Florida.
I watched 3 other videos on galangal before watching yours which was by far the best and answered most of my questions. Your passion is packed with information. Thanks.
You are so appreciated here in the SE US, I feel like old 9A-humid and hot here- doesn’t have a lot of great content geared towards what works well here but I grow turmeric, katuk, etc here well because of the climate. Thanks for all the great subtropical content!
I've been growing galangal for years as I thought it was ginger when I first planted it. Never knew what to use it for and recently tried adding into my lemon grass tea as an alternative to ginger. I like it. Gonna try adding it to my Taro soup after watching your vid Mark. Vid was very entertaining nice work
You’re such a dad haha I love your dad jokes 😂 And your energy! It makes me wish my dad had loved gardening too. I could’ve shared your channel with him... oh well! I always watch your videos before going to bed it calms me down before going to sleep and I dream of gardening after hehehe!
I've never heard of galangal before until one hour ago. It's one ingredient in a Thai dish that I'm going to order tomorrow at the local Thai restaurant after reviewing their menu. I'm also going to try growing it next Spring, yippee! Your video is very informative and funny! I just subscribed to your channel so I'll watch more of your cool videos. Oh, I love it that you grow organically and like frogs and snakes :)
I have just come across your "shows". True DTE growing tips and wholesome goodness. All you need to know in one place. I look forward to binging on all the rest you have on offer. Much obliged !
I really enjoyed this video. Very informative and to the point. Excellent footage of how things should look with clear views. Great tips. Wonderful presentation skills. I look forward to seeing more of your material.
Job well done my friend you’ve done a fabulous tutorial here which is entertaining & I can watch with the family, full of beneficial knowledge right to the very last detail, thank you so much please keep up the good work! You’re our Australian star, when I first discovered you I thought you were going to only garden common stuff but you are growing things which is very exciting such as your galangal, avocado, mango, banana & your style from trial & error + great things which I probably have missed. Looking forward to more.
Thank you for sharing .. your introduction is FUN .. a bit of history about the plants and all the way to our YUMMY food . Most impress on your tips number 4 and 5 .. I don't use any pesticide with the domestic pests (cockroaches ..etc) I starve them by keeping the food cover nothing left on the sauce bottles ..etc and if I see them I would sweep them out of the door .. if any of my plants showing signs of being attacked by the bugs - I cut the sick bit off let them sun dry or freeze them so I can use the good part at a a later days. 9/10 for this video ..
Lol, I just snarfed my tea! I didn't think of that song when I heard the word galangal..... NOW I do! Lol, I'm going to look pretty silly the next time I got to the Asian market
Yes Mark, you're weird, but none here will hold that against you. Galangal looks pretty exotic compared to anything I've seen growing here at the 44N parallel. I really appreciate your approach to many things. Thanks.
Hello from Canada. Mark you gotta e the cutest , goofiest, most well informed and great video content. Very well informed. thks for bringing the videos. appreciate it
I reckon you're right growing it in full sun. I've had galangal "growing" for about 12-18 months in a mostly shady sheltered position and it's no bigger than when I planted it.
I had a bright idea to take the small battery powered reciprocating saw I use for trimming tree branches and to stick it in the soil and just make a cut in the dirt in the clump around the part I want to dig out. Once the rhizome is detached from the parent, it is as easy to dig out the ground as regular ginger. Granted I got some odd pieces since the cut was rather blind - but this was much better than trying to futilely break a piece with shovel or the usual gardening tools.
Nice video. You might want to invest in a pinch point bar to dig up massive roots. Super easy to pry without slicing the roots. Also I noticed you shred paper for the composter. Excellent worm bedding material. Would you consider red wiggler worm composting? Probably the fastest way to recycle nutrients of fruit and veggies I've ever seen
as someone who learned of this plant while also learning to speak thai, the english name is dumb but i still want to grow it lol. insert the awkward conversation of my thai friends telling me it isn't ginger and explaining why haha ข่า ไม่ใช่ขิง
You can just plant a rhizome then wait for a year if you wanna harvest like normal or you could let them grow forever and harvest the rhizomes on the sides just like mark is doing
@@sweetpotatoestroop Ahh yes, I like to harvest as needed. Just did some brief research and it turns out to be perhaps the most potent wide ranging anti-cancer herb known. I grew a little of it, not well tended just between some fairly tightly packed citrus trees, the side with morning only direct sun but no regular water (out of reach of timed drip system) hung in there and the wetter side in mid day sun died. Going to try some more in various light and watering conditions soon.
@@sweetpotatoestroop My all time favorite soup uses it and I didn't even know it. Tom Kha Gai, Thai soup, like to produce as many of the ingredients for it as possible.
that must be one of the top 5 intros- and another great vid :-) thumbs up, share-wait for the next ;-) I want to add galangal to my zingiberales banana circle (turmeric and ginger and bananas so far)
Sainte Hildegarde, à Nun from middle âge, di writte a book about medecinals plantes and also a cooking book. She was always mentioning galanga, and it s vertues, I did nt never knowed what it was, before I went to Thailande in Issan. I m now an adict of there roots: ginger, curcuma, galanga and also Fingerroot or white galanga or krachai. They have all strong medecinals property and great flavour. It is an real enjoyment to have it home, fresh. I also eat the flowers of the Galanga, same spicy taste.
So I'm looking at a Thai recipe and find an ingredient I don't know what it is. I google it and one of the first links is to Mark telling us how to grow it. Cheers man.
How is galanga today? I ,m watching your galangal today they so well done. My home town not grew well .it’s like growing in tropical weather l guess. Thanks for your tips
awesome Bonanza theme!! Missed your 5 tips vids always humorous and so informative! Really interesting about Galangal.. I lived in China 10 years but never saw it in markets. Maybe they dry it or chop it up before it hits the markets. But I do think I ate the stems chopped into 10cm pieces in stir fry.. delicious! I wonder if it would survive a hard freeze like we have in north central US and be able to harvest in just a 120 growing season? Thanks Mark!
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I'm the former owner of a cooking school in Thailand. After moving to western Mexico I was lucky enough to be given a galangal plant by a Thai restaurant owner. I repotted it into a large pot in which it grew to about a meter high, before I was able to convince my landlady to let me plant in the backyard behind our apartment building. However the only spot she would allow me to put is in full shade. It's been there for about 6 weeks and has spread out a bit, but any upward growth is barely noticeable. I believe it will survive but I don't expect it to thrive without sun, nor do I expect the rhizomes to ever get as plump as the ones in this delightful video. I'm grateful for what I have though, galangal is unknown here and not to be found for sale anywhere.
You’re my favorite person on RUclips!
Galangal is an everyday spice in Cambodian cooking. It's used for fermenting vegetable and Cambodian sausage. It's also used in soup and marinating meats.
I've been trying to get it for over 2 years in south africa. A week ago my hubby found two plants at a nursery and boy I cried like a baby. 🤣🤣🤣I am so protective of this plant 🤗🤗🤗
If you are in KZN I can send you a rhizome or two. :)
Your video is very informative. Thank you. I’m Vietnamese and my mom cooks galangal very often. I remember seeing the galangal growing around my grandparents ‘s house. I like to grow them here in US, but don’t know how to grow them well until I saw your video. Thanks again; now I know what to do
My grandpa's favorite show😃
And yea, yer weird, but in a good way...more like unique! Entertaining AND informational.
My husband and I have learned so much from your videos. We love them! Thank you so much for taking the time to post these amazing, educational vids.
This was super helpful. I have three clumps of rhizomes I ordered and am going to start growing my crop now using your directions! Greetings from Florida.
Mark quite possibly the best intro.........EVER!!!!! Love your spunk and quirkiness my friend keep it up
Yes Mark , you're wonderfully weird and we all love and learn from you ! Never give up.
I watched 3 other videos on galangal before watching yours which was by far the best and answered most of my questions. Your passion is packed with information. Thanks.
Because of you, I grew galangal, which is doing well by the way. And since we love all kinds of SE Asian cuisine, we love that is readily available.
I'm an American, have never heard of galangal. But I'm looking forward to giving it a go next season. Thank you!
You are so appreciated here in the SE US, I feel like old 9A-humid and hot here- doesn’t have a lot of great content geared towards what works well here but I grow turmeric, katuk, etc here well because of the climate. Thanks for all the great subtropical content!
It's impossible not to adore this man!
The Bonanza theme song is going to be stuck in my head now, thanks Mark. 😂
Ear worm time for sure!
You're definitely the best kind of weird and I love it.
I've been growing galangal for years as I thought it was ginger when I first planted it. Never knew what to use it for and recently tried adding into my lemon grass tea as an alternative to ginger. I like it. Gonna try adding it to my Taro soup after watching your vid Mark. Vid was very entertaining nice work
Galangal and lemon grass are main material for our Thai famous "Tomyum", you can try this receipt by search on google.
If you like Thai cooking is a distinct non-substitutable ingredient. Such a unique, fresh flavour!
You got a good sense of humour. Enjoy your educational knowledge. Keep it up👍👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
galangal is expensive in Usa about $10 for a pound (1/2 kg) very cheap in Asia.i used it for Indonesian and Thai cooking.
You’re such a dad haha I love your dad jokes 😂 And your energy! It makes me wish my dad had loved gardening too. I could’ve shared your channel with him... oh well! I always watch your videos before going to bed it calms me down before going to sleep and I dream of gardening after hehehe!
Informative and humorous in a good way. Thank you for taking the time do to this. I'll be employing your recommendations in my garden this year.
I've never heard of galangal before until one hour ago. It's one ingredient in a Thai dish that I'm going to order tomorrow at the local Thai restaurant after reviewing their menu. I'm also going to try growing it next Spring, yippee!
Your video is very informative and funny! I just subscribed to your channel so I'll watch more of your cool videos. Oh, I love it that you grow organically and like frogs and snakes :)
I like galangal and use it in my cooking. I enjoy your introduction, very creative!
Mark, you always put a smile on my face- love your videos
I have just come across your "shows". True DTE growing tips and wholesome goodness. All you need to know in one place. I look forward to binging on all the rest you have on offer. Much obliged !
I LOVE your large clump in the background! I am now inspired for mine! Thank you!
I've never heard of Galangal before but will definitely try to grow it.
You're the nicest weird person I know, and I should know, cos I'm a weirdo magnet!! lol
I really enjoyed this video. Very informative and to the point. Excellent footage of how things should look with clear views. Great tips. Wonderful presentation skills. I look forward to seeing more of your material.
Thank you for your show, very educational on knowledge that we need to know and pass down.
Thank you for your time.
Yeah you act weird, but that's why we love yer videos! Informative and entertaining! You're a great teacher.
Job well done my friend you’ve done a fabulous tutorial here which is entertaining & I can watch with the family, full of beneficial knowledge right to the very last detail, thank you so much please keep up the good work! You’re our Australian star, when I first discovered you I thought you were going to only garden common stuff but you are growing things which is very exciting such as your galangal, avocado, mango, banana & your style from trial & error + great things which I probably have missed. Looking forward to more.
Thank you for sharing .. your introduction is FUN .. a bit of history about the plants and all the way to our YUMMY food . Most impress on your tips number 4 and 5 .. I don't use any pesticide with the domestic pests (cockroaches ..etc) I starve them by keeping the food cover nothing left on the sauce bottles ..etc and if I see them I would sweep them out of the door .. if any of my plants showing signs of being attacked by the bugs - I cut the sick bit off let them sun dry or freeze them so I can use the good part at a a later days.
9/10 for this video ..
GREAT presentation!🤗
love your channel. I've been binge watching all your videos :)
Me too 😊👍
Hi there I too
Your a joy to watch and learn from
It’s a great plant. At present, it’s attracting all the grasshoppers in my garden.
Lol, I just snarfed my tea! I didn't think of that song when I heard the word galangal..... NOW I do! Lol, I'm going to look pretty silly the next time I got to the Asian market
I'm growing ginger, tumeric and galangal along the northern side of a row of bananas. Seems to be going well so far even after all that rain.
I'm no gardener but I'm still waiting for your next videos for educational purposes :)
Not weird just showing your age. Mark great things you do very inspiring
Someone gave me 2 of this and your video is very helpful. Looking forward to planting them
Yes Mark, you're weird, but none here will hold that against you. Galangal looks pretty exotic compared to anything I've seen growing here at the 44N parallel. I really appreciate your approach to many things. Thanks.
Hello from Canada. Mark you gotta e the cutest , goofiest, most well informed and great video content. Very well informed. thks for bringing the videos. appreciate it
Galangal is the most important ingredient for cooking Thai Tom Yam Kung soup, Thai Curry, Thai Satay...... 👍
I reckon you're right growing it in full sun. I've had galangal "growing" for about 12-18 months in a mostly shady sheltered position and it's no bigger than when I planted it.
You got a thumbs up JUST FOR THE INTRO SONG! Love it! You are adorable :)
I have never heard of this.. looks intriguing
the flames really got me fired up to grow galangal
I like ypur take on gardening I believe I live in a similar type of environment as you. I hope my galangal comes out nice
I had a bright idea to take the small battery powered reciprocating saw I use for trimming tree branches and to stick it in the soil and just make a cut in the dirt in the clump around the part I want to dig out. Once the rhizome is detached from the parent, it is as easy to dig out the ground as regular ginger. Granted I got some odd pieces since the cut was rather blind - but this was much better than trying to futilely break a piece with shovel or the usual gardening tools.
Wow you had plenty. This is a good herb. Thank you for sharing ❤
Your videos are awesome!! Thank you!
You are a hoot! Thanks for sharing. Blessings always ~Lisa
LOve the intro man. haha what a comic. Good informational stuff too
Loved the Bonanza intro. No, you are not weird.
omg! lol at the end you should have shoved the Galangal into a holster LMAO. awesome. plants look fantastic
Your channel & enthusiasm for planting are very inspiring...!
Great.... now I have the Bonanza theme stuck in my head :D
I was already singing galangal when I saw "galangal" in the title before watching xD
Hey Look! It's my new favorite person! Thanks for the great info and good Qi!
You have a vid for everything!!!!! I love it!!!!
Thanks, I'm going outside and planting it right now! I'm going to try a sunny spot. Thanks!
You think of the Bonanza theme when you think of Galangal? Every time you say G'Day I expect you to say "Wheres the Cheese"
Thanks for sharing your top tips on Galangal Mark !! 🏡📷👍✝
Thanks for the informative video! I’ve never seen galangal rhizomes before. So pink!
I'm U.S. Zone 7B N. Carolina - I never heard of galangal but I understand the tune matching Bonanza.
Thanks for sharing it so beautiful I will plan some
one of my favourite spice....love it. I grew it at some point when I lived in Brisbane.....I must try again.......keep up the good work....
Nice video.
You might want to invest in a pinch point bar to dig up massive roots. Super easy to pry without slicing the roots.
Also I noticed you shred paper for the composter. Excellent worm bedding material. Would you consider red wiggler worm composting? Probably the fastest way to recycle nutrients of fruit and veggies I've ever seen
I really enjoyed this video. comical and informative!
Love your jingle!
as someone who learned of this plant while also learning to speak thai, the english name is dumb but i still want to grow it lol. insert the awkward conversation of my thai friends telling me it isn't ginger and explaining why haha ข่า ไม่ใช่ขิง
Native from South East Asia
Thank you. I've never heard of this before
Very helpful and amusing. Thanks
Interesting video. Now I need to grow this. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Another brilliant video mate thank you !
yep. mine are in the middle of the hot Texas sun, and they grow like crazy.
New to ME. One thing I'm always interested in on such rhyzone or root crops is if I can leave them in the ground and harvest as needed.
You can just plant a rhizome then wait for a year if you wanna harvest like normal or you could let them grow forever and harvest the rhizomes on the sides just like mark is doing
@@sweetpotatoestroop Ahh yes, I like to harvest as needed. Just did some brief research and it turns out to be perhaps the most potent wide ranging anti-cancer herb known. I grew a little of it, not well tended just between some fairly tightly packed citrus trees, the side with morning only direct sun but no regular water (out of reach of timed drip system) hung in there and the wetter side in mid day sun died. Going to try some more in various light and watering conditions soon.
@@sweetpotatoestroop My all time favorite soup uses it and I didn't even know it. Tom Kha Gai, Thai soup, like to produce as many of the ingredients for it as possible.
that must be one of the top 5 intros- and another great vid :-) thumbs up, share-wait for the next ;-) I want to add galangal to my zingiberales banana circle (turmeric and ginger and bananas so far)
Sainte Hildegarde, à Nun from middle âge, di writte a book about medecinals plantes and also a cooking book. She was always mentioning galanga, and it s vertues, I did nt never knowed what it was, before I went to Thailande in Issan. I m now an adict of there roots: ginger, curcuma, galanga and also Fingerroot or white galanga or krachai. They have all strong medecinals property and great flavour. It is an real enjoyment to have it home, fresh.
I also eat the flowers of the Galanga, same spicy taste.
So I'm looking at a Thai recipe and find an ingredient I don't know what it is.
I google it and one of the first links is to Mark telling us how to grow it.
Cheers man.
i enjoy your show. great job
Riding off into the sunset on his mower 😆
Best start to a video I've ever seen🤣
Wow. I have never seen this plant before now.
How is galanga today? I ,m watching your galangal today they so well done. My home town not grew well .it’s like growing in tropical weather l guess. Thanks for your tips
awesome Bonanza theme!! Missed your 5 tips vids always humorous and so informative! Really interesting about Galangal.. I lived in China 10 years but never saw it in markets. Maybe they dry it or chop it up before it hits the markets. But I do think I ate the stems chopped into 10cm pieces in stir fry.. delicious! I wonder if it would survive a hard freeze like we have in north central US and be able to harvest in just a 120 growing season? Thanks Mark!
It doesn't survive hard freezes. atleast not from my experiences you might wanna grow them in cold climates not freezing
Thank you, Sir... Hopefully I can grow Galangal in the near future. GBU always and a;ways. Amen.
Hey my fav gardening buddy. Thanks to your tips my organic ginger is growing.
Yep you're weird, but we love you anyway which is why we are still here watching you. Greetings from Sydney mate.
Mark Not weird at all rather a way cool Gardener who likes to sing Bonanza theme when sees Galanga
Great educational
Never heard of this plant until today.
I like this for cook my food
I find it funny hearing it pronounced "gal-angle" after hearing other RUclipsrs pronounce it "gal-an-gool". Still a great video. :thumbsup:
Malay Malaysian used in curry.
Chinese malaysian use to stew soya 5 spice duck/ pork.
Raw young galangal taste best with chilli 'lime & salt.
Thanks for this one Mark I have some galangal growing in a huge pot but it's not doing as well as yours so I might try moving it.
for the rest of my life i will now get that song in my head when talking about galangal