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Post by damnoldhippie on Oct 10, 2008 22:02:20 GMT -5
Char had a run-in with a sore throat earlier this summer, so I was making lemon/ginger/honey/aspirin hot tea for her for awhile, using fresh ginger root grated into the mix. We ended up having an extra couple of ginger roots that started to sprout after awhile. I put them in this shallow saucer-bowl clay pot, just nestling them in the soil. This is how it looks after a couple of months: It looks like a very delicate bamboo...haven't tried slicing any of the shoots off to use for anything culinary, just really been enjoying it as a plant! Will probably try using some of the shoots in a stir-fry before it dies back for the winter. Anybody else tried growing it?
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Post by cinnabar on Oct 11, 2008 9:23:50 GMT -5
I tried a while back, but planted the root under the soil too far and it rotted. Those look good. The greens should have a mild ginger flavor for eating I am told. Cinn
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Post by berlyn on Oct 11, 2008 19:24:15 GMT -5
I have the ornamental ginger in my back yard. Geez, it grows like crazy!! It smells so 'gingerly good' when I trim it back.
This edible looks very similar but smaller. Wonder if it blooms like the ornamental type??
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Post by damnoldhippie on Oct 12, 2008 22:15:06 GMT -5
Not sure if it blooms or not...we will try to keep it alive through the winter and see what happens.
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Post by chipperhiker on Oct 12, 2008 22:25:29 GMT -5
While I was looking up ginger horticulture, I ran into a cool site - The Encyclopedia of Spices. Check it out - lots of interesting info, including how to grow quite a few spices I've never even heard of. Mastic, anyone? www.theepicentre.com/Spices/spiceref.htmlAs for ginger, they say it does flower, but rarely.
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Post by damnoldhippie on Oct 12, 2008 23:29:51 GMT -5
Cool site! Danke for the link!
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Post by lwagne on Oct 25, 2014 15:27:01 GMT -5
I think I read that it would flower the second year. Ate all ours, will have to buy more to experiment with
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Post by karitx on Oct 25, 2014 16:27:11 GMT -5
Mine has flowered for the last couple of years, but the blooms aren't as nice as the "flowering" gingers. Ah, found a picture:
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Post by vaporvac on Oct 25, 2014 16:42:46 GMT -5
Very impressive. Any secrets? How old is that plant?
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Post by karitx on Oct 25, 2014 17:46:52 GMT -5
I think that was the third year before I got blooms, but I didn't really have any idea what I was doing the first year and the poor plants really suffered. I'm still by no means an expert, but my method is to put the ginger out after the danger of frost has ended (usually mid-March here) and start watering it then. Then when we have the first fall frost predicted, I bring it inside and when it starts to die back, I harvest the rhizomes. I re-pot a few of the nicest roots (I go ahead and put some organic fertilizer deeper in the pot) and then let them sit in the potting soil without watering until the following spring. Our garage gets cold, but it stays above freezing in there all winter.
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Post by mach12 on Oct 25, 2014 22:01:40 GMT -5
When I was working in Egypt I bought some ginger root for a recipe and decided to try growing some. I had these great big built-in concrete flower pots that ran almost the length and width of my apartment out on the wrap-around balcony so set a piece in the dirt to see what it would do and it took off. I never did get to use any of it since we were evacuated about 3 months later but it already had 3 or 4 new parts growing off of it and was developing buds. It loved the climate there. Here in Western WA State it'd probably be an indoor or greenhouse plant.
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