Deb..Gingers can be grown indoors, but they're difficult. They do best in a green house setting. If it's inexpensive, can't hurt to try, but they need humidity, and bright light..from sun, not office lighting. Although, a sunny window and artificial light would work together. My Gingers are outside now. Two go dormant which mean leaf drop. Do you know the Ginger Lily type? Variegated, Alpina or Hedychium? Toni

Ralph, i overwintered a bunch of them from my fair garden last year in pots. I wasn't sure if they'd be hardy planted so late so i didn't want to take the chance putting them in the ground. Since i used them this year as well, i plan to do the same thing again, along with some marginal sages. I left them in pots (or bags in the case of one) and put them in the basement along with my brugs, bananas and ee's and other stuff i don't have room for in the cool greenhouse that can take abuse. It stays barely above freezing, but we don't pay that much attention down there and i'm quite sure it drops below that sometimes. Normally it hovers around 50 degrees. We do try to run a space heater on really low if it's to drop into the teens (for our water pipes, too). There's 2 4' shoplights and a small window that provide a small amount of light. We water very infrequently, basically when we remember- which is about every 4 to 6 weeks. Most didn't go completely dormant, but lost some stalks. Some disappeared utterly, and i thought for sure they were dead, but they came back in spring. There was no signs of the tuber in one particularly, but it's fine now. If i were you, i'd pot them, in sand if you're more attentive than me about water, soil otherwise, and maybe cut the stalks back by 1/2. If you let it get cold enough, they'll go dormant and you can pull off the foliage. I don't honestly know what the threshold is where they would die though. Wish i did. That sounds like a mighty handy book! I know my gram in PA always overwintered her geraniums and other things in a basement window with no heat and one was probably 50+ years old! It had been her mom's before her. She kept the stuff extremely dry. I never got that knack- i tend to kill geraniums. Oh well.

I'd lay off the watering until you see some signs of growth. All of my Curcuma are in the ground and have emerged from winter dormancy. You don't need to water until there is growth. Steve

Sorry guys....I see there is a ginger forum. Will copy this to that. Still getting the hang of this site.