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Post by canadamike on Mar 5, 2012 16:25:59 GMT -5
Just bought ginger yesterday...I will grow it in a greenhouse than transplant. Apparently some people in Quebec did it with success.
It sure will not be enough for a commercial croip, but will be fun nevertheless as an experimant.
I hope I am not too late for putting the roots in the ground.
Does anybody have any experience with it?
Do other people want to try it, it could be fun...nothing is better than really fresh ginger, bursting with juice when you cut it, but the roots we get here are often too old for that, although perfectly delicious....
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Post by oxbowfarm on Mar 5, 2012 16:53:20 GMT -5
Some friends of mine grow it for market here in their greenhouse. They are located up in Schuyler County up along Seneca Lake near the wineries. They don't grow a heck of a lot of it but it is really nice. They sell it fresh when it is that beautiful pink and yellow translucent stage. I think they charge $12/lb. There is a company out of Hawaii selling the ginger for this purpose. I can't remember the name, there was an article about growing it in a recent "Growing for Market".
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Post by littleminnie on Mar 5, 2012 19:18:16 GMT -5
I have recently been thinking about it and looked it up but don't fully understand how to grow it.
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Post by canadamike on Mar 5, 2012 20:07:54 GMT -5
Basically, you put the root in a pot and wait for it to grow... then transplant, it is a very big plant. The roots are a bit like irises roots in behavior.
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Post by raymondo on Mar 6, 2012 4:33:02 GMT -5
So you start it indoors early, like peppers?
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Post by orflo on Mar 6, 2012 5:03:30 GMT -5
Tried this one, in fact trying it every year, I love ginger! It needs a greenhouse in the North (or South), lots of warmth and lots of moisture. I grow them in pots, start from either a ginger found in the shop or a ginger that was left over from last years growth. Be patient, don't start planting it unless the day and night (!) temperatures are high enough, otherwise you could end up with rotten ginger roots. If you have these conditions, plant it out, make sure it's fully covered by soil, and keep the soil moist, so water it every day. The shoots will appear within two weeks, and provided the conditions are good, it will grow nicely. I never had 'huge' plants though, the season is probably too short here. Harvest is at the most five times as big as the original tuber, more likely two to three times during 'normal' rainy summers over here. But it's fun to see it grow  Ginger myoga supports rougher and colder weather, but you haven't got the nice rhizomes, only young shoots and flowers. It takes quite a bit of frost, so that's nice! |
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Post by oxbowfarm on Mar 6, 2012 8:01:25 GMT -5
My friends grow it in the greenhouse, it needs heat and humidity in order to make the big fat saleable roots (corms?, rhizomes?)
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Post by oxbowfarm on Mar 6, 2012 8:02:42 GMT -5
Rhizome.
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Post by Walk on Mar 6, 2012 8:42:00 GMT -5
We've grown an indoor pot of ginger for the past couple of years. It does OK, although this last year it didn't do as well, barely twice as much root as we started with. One thing to note - cats really like to chew on the plant, which really doesn't do it any good.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Mar 6, 2012 10:46:49 GMT -5
OK. I'll join the trial. It's a sucky trial for me though. I really dislike growing tropical species from clones. If they don't produce seeds in my garden then they will only adapt by epigenetics which can only go so far. I'll plant ginger and turmeric. I noticed that one accession of turmeric seeds may be available from GRIN, but I'm feeling grumpy about taxes being too high so I'm not requesting them. No seeds are available from GRIN for ginger (Zingiber officinale) I eat about a tablespoon of turmeric powder per day, so it would be clever to grow my own. Oh, and by the way, I have really been enjoying (mashed) squash soup this winter. Thanks for introducing me to squash soup. I'm making orange butternut with turmeric!!! Pretty and yummy! Between the squash and the turmeric, maybe one of these days I'll turn orange. |
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Post by wmontanez on Mar 6, 2012 20:42:07 GMT -5
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Mar 6, 2012 21:11:34 GMT -5
Joseph,My mom has turmeric that I got from an Indian friend. Now grows very well at her garden in Puerto Rico. I can request a rhizome and send it your way. Thanks. Does your mother's turmeric ever produce seeds? I'd be very interested in growing seeds from it: that would give me a much better chance of selecting for plants that would do best in my garden. I'm presuming that your mother's clone is different from the one I ordered on eBay, so that's a start at genetic diversity. |
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Post by steev on Mar 6, 2012 21:50:50 GMT -5
Turmeric sometimes turns up in my favorite produce market; I'll keep you in mind, joseph.
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Post by bunkie on Mar 7, 2012 12:26:33 GMT -5
michel, i'm interested in the ginger trials! i had a ginger bulb that grew last summer in a pot and was out in the cold greenhouse and died...or so i thought. aa couple months ago i brought it in the house and watered it to see what would happen. it started sprouting shoots. so far so good.
joseph, i used a ton of powdered turmeric too. i would love to try and grow some. i wonder if one can consume it in raw form?
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Post by wmontanez on Mar 7, 2012 23:49:00 GMT -5
Joseph, I don't know if it does produce seed, will ask this weekend.
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