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Post by flowerpower on Mar 8, 2012 7:00:55 GMT -5
I'll toss a piece in a lg pot. It makes a nice plant for the deck.
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Post by heidela on Mar 9, 2012 8:59:38 GMT -5
I live in the Pacific northwest and do have a freeze or two in the winter. Mine will winter over if I mulch HEAVILY. The routine for me with this lovely plant when it does succumb to the freezing weather or rot (I live the colder end of what is considered temperate)
1. Start it in a pot, get plenty of growth to it, then transplant to the area of the yard that has a barrier for wind but the warmest place in the spring when the frost is gone
2 mulch mulch let it grow all summer with out messing with it, I do not harvest any the first year
3 I usually leave it mulch it and hope it makes it through the winter! But if we are predicting a rough winter, or I am not totally burned out, I will dig it Jo, pot it and put it on my sun porch
I love to grow ginger, can harvest a couple of pounds in a good year from a well nurtured plant but I do not harvest for market it is for my kitchen and I share it
It is great to just grow in big planters with wheels so you can move it in and out. But I much rather put it in the garden as if the leaves do not get hammered it looks pretty!
I have to start a new bit and I am late, when I read this post I checked my plant and it it rotted completely ( overwintered out doors) the third year for me is alway the best.
I never take the whole p,ant I take hunks off as needed
I will plant some directly in the garden this weekend mulch it well and see what happens since I am late to the party.
bring it onto a sunporch
4 second year
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Mar 9, 2012 9:55:41 GMT -5
I started my ginger trial by potting up 4 pieces of ginger I got at the grocery store. They are sitting in the garage at just above freezing. I'll bring them inside in a few days, and water them for a couple months to see if they'll sprout. I'll grab a ginger root from each of the grocery store chains around here and pot a rhizome from each one. Perhaps they are all clones, perhaps I'll find some diversity. Another ginger root and a couple of turmeric shipments are wending their way through the mail to me.  |
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Post by toad on Mar 9, 2012 15:30:13 GMT -5
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Mar 13, 2012 16:23:42 GMT -5
Ginger and turmeric arrived today from eBay. The turmeric rhizomes were quite small, so enough arrived to plant several hundred feet of row. I don't intend to plant that much, so if any of you in the usa would like a few rhizomes send me a personal message.
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Post by templeton on Mar 13, 2012 16:44:09 GMT -5
Joseph, a friend on a local forum here is a Zingiberaceae enthusiast living in Adelaide - I'll ask him if turmeric ever seeds.
T
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Post by templeton on Mar 13, 2012 20:04:44 GMT -5
Joseph, I just got this info from other correspondent "... my turmeric flowers for me most years and I've never seen seed. I've never heard of it being propagated from seed. It's one of those things... vegetative is easier when you have access to rhizomes. Just did some reading and found that it does set seed and is viable. Look at this link - curent research projects at the Indian Spice Research Institute: www.spices.res.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=122&Itemid=40article 9 I think the polinator would be a beetle, from memory. This year I ordered a better (higher curcumin content) cultivar from Earthcare Enterprises. " so there you go. I've chased up one of the cited journal articles here <http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FPGR%2FPGR3_02%2FS1479262105000298a.pdf&code=1c7ba9331bb8329e3395fd739ff44a29> There are cool climate members of the genus that might be worth investigating. T |
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Post by nicky on Mar 14, 2012 9:29:28 GMT -5
Hi!
I am in Ontario & grew ginger successfully from a grocer's rhizome over the last year. Last January I chitted a rhizome on top of the fridge in a damp paper towel & plastic baggie until a tiny green sprout appeared (took about 6 weeks). I planted it in a large pot - the foliage was quite nice. Moved it to the greenhouse during the warm summer months. The foliage grew to about 4 feet tall. Moved it back into my living room window for the winter.
I have carefully scraped away some of the soil to have a peek & can see that it has almost filled my pot. I am planning to empty the pot when the weather warms up & break it into a few pieces & replant them in the greenhouse in new pots - after taste testing of course!
I will take a few pics when I pull it from the pot.
Cheers,
Nicky
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Post by traab on Mar 14, 2012 17:28:53 GMT -5
Dried ginger leaves are fragrant. I wonder if there are uses for the leaf.
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Post by mountaindweller on Jun 12, 2012 22:38:32 GMT -5
There is a plant called Japanese Ginger or Myoga. I think it grows in cooler climate but is not used as the usual root ginger.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jun 14, 2012 9:03:56 GMT -5
The ginger and turmeric I put in pots many months ago didn't sprout for me... But the left over turmeric that was stored in a plastic bag on the kitchen counter sprouted, so I planted a 50 foot row yesterday. I also planted the surviving potted rhizomes.
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Post by nicky on Jun 14, 2012 12:02:49 GMT -5
My ginger took AGES to sprout.... just over 3 months. I gave up checking after 2 months but forgot to toss it out & left it on top of the fridge. It sprouted a month later. It lived in the greenhouse for the summer & then I brought the pot in & completely inside throught the fall & winter (I am in Ontario). After drying for a month it looked like store bought ginger, but had a good deal more zing to the taste. I have planted the largest green sprout again this year. Here is a link to my journal about it.
"http://nickysgarden.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/the-ginger-experiment/"
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jul 13, 2012 15:17:11 GMT -5
I saw some extremely goofy looking corn sprouting today in the next row over from where I planted sugary enhanced sweet corn. I though it was Dar's Cherokee Squaw cross. I was sad because it looked like it was well on it's way to croaking. The leaves were all misshapen: And I had such high hopes for Dar's corn.
Not to worry though. When I got down close to examine why it was suffering so, it wasn't corn after all, it was turmeric.
Dar's corn is germinating in the next row over. Don't know why I planted a row of turmeric in the midst a sweet corn patch.
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Post by wildseed57 on Jul 14, 2012 22:38:45 GMT -5
Hi Mike, I grow a edible gingers in pots, when ever I buy ginger roots or rhizomes i cut off a few eyes and let them dry for a couiple of days before putting them in my pots I use mostly peat moss and perolite and keep it moist. I haven't tried growing turmeric as I'm not found of the flavor there are several other types of gingers that do produce seeds most of them unfortunitly are not edible and some are only grown in their home country mostly in south east asia. There is a flowering ginger variety that is being grown in Hawaii and is used to make a shampoo, but its not a edible type. Given enough light and heat along with enough water ginger will quickly produce enough rhizomes to satify most needs.
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Post by templeton on Jul 15, 2012 3:14:34 GMT -5
My SH turmeric in a big pot in the greenhouse has all yellowed off. I bandicooted a big fat rhizome out of the pot - will leave the rest to see what happens. The harvested root doesn't look very yellow, and quick taste test showed it to be somewhat bitter, and not very turmeric-ey. Pity, a quick feel through the top of the pot indicated that there is a fair crop under the soil.
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