Growing ginger?

Don V Zone 5-6 Cleveland OH

7 years ago

Anyone grow ginger? It is really hard to find and I hear little about it. I tried twice and had very little luck.

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digdirt2
7 years ago
Link to quite a few previous discussions about growing gingers

http://www.gardenweb.com/gardenweb/query/growing-ginger

It has its own forum here too.

Dave
Pumpkin (zone 10A)
7 years ago
I grow galangal outside in a pot, but I live in a suitable climate. They're tropical plants and want tropical conditions--hot is fine, cold is not. They want moisture & fertile soil. And the get tall. Mine is several feet tall and will probably grow to 6' in the next few months. They don't like to be super soggy but damp seems like a winner.

Are you trying to grow from a plant you bought or from a piece of the root from the grocery store.
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I don't have photos of anything. I guess I must be more verbally oriented than visually oriented, because I never even think about taking photos. Partly, too, it is because when I am outside, I am busy literally from sunup to sundown and barely have time to eat. Maintaining a large property is hard, and I exhaust myself during the spring planting and summer harvesting season. If I had it to do over again, I'd buy 2 or 3 acres and not 15. If my criunum even bloomed last year, I somehow missed it and I don't know how. We are in an ongoing moderate drought here with drought conditions since August 2007, and I didn't water the veggie garden much last summer as the drought progressed because the water bill was getting outrageously high from all the watering around the home landscape. My crinum is on the northwestern edge of the cottage border that surrounds the veggie garden, so it gets afternoon shade and is happy there. Unfortunately, I don't spend a lot of time at the end of garden unless I'm harvesting corn, beans or squash from the "Three Sisters" garden. The four crinums I planted this year are closer to the house where I can see them daily. There are in a bed on the east side of the house so they'll actually get a little more sun than my original crinum does down by the garden because it is shaded by trees that are west of the garden. I guess if I don't get good blooms from the original crinum this year, I'll move it up closer to the other ones this fall. The foliage was up and thick and lush and a very late freeze froze it back hard a couple of weeks ago.
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ak_ok
7 years ago
I had a leftover ginger rhizome that I got from the store. It had been sitting in the fridge for probably about a month and I thought, what the heck, I'll plant it. Well a month or two after I planted it, nothing had came up. So I went to remove it from the pot it was in to put something else in it's place. To my surprise it wouldn't come out with the initial pull, I gave it another tug and half the root broke off and the came out while the other half stayed in the pot. I looked a little closer and could see that there was a tube shooting up as the rhizome had sprouted. I replanted the half that had came up and I'll just let it continue to do its thing.

What do you mean it's hard to find? Just get the rhizome from the produce aisle at just about any supermarket and you can find instructions on here to plant it. Just have more patience than I did!
Pumpkin (zone 10A)
7 years ago
There are many many types of ginger, some are very rare. I grow galangal ginger, so a different type than the standard grocery store type. I can think of 5 other edible gingers that are obtainable, and then there's all the ornamental ones. OP doesn't say what kind--and there are some that need really specialized care.
LoneJack Zn 6a, KC
7 years ago
Regardless of type, the OP is not going to be able to grow ginger outdoors in Cleveland's climate.
Don V Zone 5-6 Cleveland OH
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7 years ago
Store bought likely is treated with growth retardant so I was looking to order some. I could bring inside but I mostly want it to cook.
purslanegarden
7 years ago
Store bought ones do have the retardant but it doesn't mean it won't grow for you. It's how many people get some ginger plants into their garden.

If nothing else, get one from a natural or organic grocery store that may grow faster. Also pick one that seems to be starting to grow already.

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