Ginger

littlejo 10/12/2015, 3:17 pm

After starting my SFG, I tried to grow other things, exotic or "cannot grow this here"
I chose ginger, it is tropical, and it is supposed to bloom. It has been in my herb box since spring, no blooms. I decided to dig and overwinter in a pot. Well, the info I had said damp but not too much water. Don't believe everything on the internet. We had 13.5 + inches of rain. I went to put in a pot, it is fixing to bloom! I'll see if it is worth potting or not. Here is a couple pictures. Does anyone know what to do with ginger?

Here is plant only.
Ginger 10-15_10

The bloom. It has spread from 1 grocery root to about 2 ft sq. area. It has 5 blooms coming up.
Ginger 10-15_11

**walshevak** 10/12/2015, 3:52 pm

ginger is supposed to be hardy to zone 8.

Kay

littlejo 10/12/2015, 4:46 pm

After it blooms, I may leave a portion of it in the ground. I think I'm in 8b, but we do get freezes once in a while.

Jo Ann

**AtlantaMarie** 10/12/2015, 8:36 pm

VERY nice! Congratulations!

**walshevak** 10/12/2015, 10:16 pm

littlejo wrote:After it blooms, I may leave a portion of it in the ground. I think I'm in 8b, but we do get freezes once in a while.

Jo Ann

My guess is that the foliage will die back to the ground after the frost (based on ornamental ginger lilies). Clean the dead stuff off and mulch. I notice pine needles in your picture. Use them.

Kay

Marc Iverson 10/13/2015, 3:53 am

What's the quality of the root(taste/texture?) before vs after it blooms?

I'm growing another odd(to me) root crop, horseradish, and wondering kinda the same thing.

littlejo 10/13/2015, 8:56 am

I know that Horseradish is hot but I have no idea if blooming makes a change in either.

Jo

CapeCoddess 10/14/2015, 3:32 pm

My 2 yr old ginger is in a pot and comes in for the winter. It has never bloomed. Matter of fact I thought it died last winter, even inside, but it came up more than ever before this spring.
Ginger 00211

It's not at beautiful and as thick as yours, Jo, but that it's even growing in New England is amazing to me.
CC

**Scorpio Rising** 10/14/2015, 5:17 pm

Marc Iverson wrote:What's the quality of the root(taste/texture?) before vs after it blooms?

I'm growing another odd(to me) root crop, horseradish, and wondering kinda the same thing.

I have grown horseradish and it is HOT, marc

littlejo 10/14/2015, 5:56 pm

CC
I did not do anything to get it to bloom, except we got rain everyday for 6 days. It drained well in the SFG.
You might give it water daily, keeping it wet for a while. Maybe that will help?
Jo

CapeCoddess 2/21/2016, 8:49 am

I harvested my ginger houseplant this morning. It's not a lot but I got a weeks worth of organic ginger that I won't have to peel. I use it for inflammation. Then I repotted the plants. Don't know if that will work but we'll see.

I also cut off these little nubbins from the lighter colored pieces that I will replant in another pot. Ginger Img_2012

This is kind of fun. But it does takes a long time. I'm harvesting my first one week batch after about two and a half years.

CC

**trolleydriver** 2/21/2016, 9:03 am

That's great CC. Not sure I would have the patience to grow ginger.

**sanderson** 2/22/2016, 1:25 am

CC, such patience!

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