The Grow Your Own Ginger Challenge.

[basketcase]

I wish I'd read any of them before I planted my bit of ginger a couple of months ago!

Got the root from the supermarket
Waited till it got a little shoot on it
Planted
Stuck it under the radiator
Waited
Nothing.

"Where has the little shoot gone", I thought and decided to have a bit of a... erm... 'root' around.

The little green shoot isn't a root, is it?

Fortunately, the intrepid shoot was merely growing underneath the whole length of the original root I'd bought trying to find a way out! So I turned it over till it pointed upwards, covered it and left it. And, to quote Dr Frankenstein, "It's aliiiiiiiiive!"

I'll join in again in the New Year anyway, if I may. (This should encourage everybody else, because now we all know who the booby-prize winner is going to be in advance!!)

[COMPOST CORNER]

This is both encouraging and slightly annoying. I have a peice of ginger I bought for using in the kitchen, and it has a lovely shoot on it from being left on the side in the kitchen.
Now everything I read tells me it's the wrong time of year to plant it!
Bummocks!!

[Isioviel]

I found a piece of ginger with a shoot growing off it and have been meaning to plant it for ages :s it's probably very dead by now so I'll try and find another suitable piece nearer new year so I can join in! I adore ginger and it would be so fun to grown even a tiny tiny root myself so I can cook it!

[Sanjed]

I grew ginger this year, it seemed pretty easy. just put a couple of bits of ginger root bought from sainsburies in a 3 litre pot, buried to the depth of the bit of root, planted sideways. I left it on a windowsill, took more than a month for anything to show, but now there are about 10 large stems growing and the roots are pushing thier way out of the pot. I expect when i harvest it, the pot will be full of rhizomes.

the pot has been outside all summer on the patio/decking and i've only brought it in within the last week. I'll try and remember to put a photo up..

Grow Ginger ! it's easy.

[Sonata]

Oooh I want to have a go too. If I remember. I tried earlier in the year but it just went mouldy *sigh*

[fran]

Hi Ginger -
I bought a cheapo plant labelled "Ginger" at the end of last year from our local GC, but I didn't know if it was just ornamental! It grew a lovely bamboo looking tall frond - then I forgot about it til the spring after it had completely died down and when I furtled around in its pot (same plastic one it was bought in) - it revealed a large ginger-looking corm.

It's been outside for the last year, no attention whatsoever, and this year has produced two fronds. Does anyone know if it's OK to eat?

Franxx

[HotStuff]

Count me in, I've been thinking about trying to grow ginger for a while. One less thing I'll need to buy when I make a Curry

[lottie dolly]

oooooow,I loves ginger,think am going to have a go as well,like to have a go at the preserving of to,home made real marrow & ginger jam,my mouth's watering at the very thought of it,sad or what,

[organic]

Well, rumour has it, now is far too early to be planting ginger, but noone told the ginger I used in a curry a few weeks back and it sprouted. I cut the rhizome off to eat and stuck the shoot into a shot glass of water where it started to develop roots.
(That is, it had sprouted before I cut it up for the curry... had it sprouted since then you'd probably have heard about it in the news and I'd have had the honour of naming a new species of pre-curried ginger)

Today I took it out of the water and put it into a post filled with "had a bag of it in the garden" compost. I couldn't tell you anything about the stuff apart from it's in a bag outside and there's some pink on the bag.

I'll be keeping it moist and seeing what happens.

Since the shoot was discovered in the veg cupboard it's been on the kitchen windowsill (east facing) and there it shall remain until I've got somewhere more appropriate for it (greenhouse, though from what I've seen it'll prefer indirect sun so I'll have to engineer a shady corner for it).

[basketcase]

This is both encouraging and slightly annoying. I have a peice of ginger I bought for using in the kitchen, and it has a lovely shoot on it from being left on the side in the kitchen.
Now everything I read tells me it's the wrong time of year to plant it!
Bummocks!!

What a lovely word - bummocks!

This is why I wish I'd read how to grow it first! Not only would have planted it the right way up but I'd have waited to start!

Fortunately, the ginger hadn't read the instructions either...

[OllieMartin]

What a lovely word - bummocks!

Word of the Day?

[kernowyon]

bit late catching up with this thread, but I'm in.

[basketcase]

Word of the Day?

I think so, don't you?

[MrsC]

I'll take part. Grew some in Spring this year with the kids in class, has been in the greenhouse all summer and is now back in school, we are hoping to make ginger cookies for Christmas.

[Alice]

I'll join in Ginger.
I grew some last year, just from a sprouted bit from the supermarket.
It put up a few fronds and when I harvested it once it had died down I got quite a few ginger rhizomes.
I replanted most of them at the beginning of January and it sent up masses of fronds about 3' high so I'm hoping for a bumper crop. It lives in the conservatory.
Come January I'll replant some and join in with your ginger growing experiment.