root ginger

[darcyfarrow]

Hopefully others have grown this ryesom before but I have no idea and love this in cooking being a newby I need all the help I can get so please where to buy the starting plant and what to do next haw to care for and any advice please

[Brengirl]

First of all Darcy may I say welcome to the club and when it comes to growing ginger I really believe that you may have as much success as any of us. Utter failure unless anyone else knows better

[Jeanied]

Oh, I don't know - I have one 3 foot ginger in the bathroom and three one foot gingers in a pot in the garden. Can't tell you what the roots are doing though!

[Jeanied]

How about this link to start you off, Darcyfarrow?

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...2-a_41922.html

[Brengirl]

Oh, I don't know - I have one 3 foot ginger in the bathroom and three one foot gingers in a pot in the garden. Can't tell you what the roots are doing though!

Congratulations Jeanied. Good to know that your ginger is flourishing.

[Bigmallly]

Mine also failed. It's sat in the greenhouse not doing anything.

[Jeanied]

In what way did it fail, BM?
Mine is just slowly growing - I'm assuming it will have to die back sometime and put energy back down into the root - not sure when that will be at the moment! Perhaps when it gets colder.
Have you looked at the root to see if it has got bigger than what you planted?

[Bigmallly]

Most likely down to neglect on my part, the stem died off, I have not checked the root, I just put it in the greenhouse & forgot about it.......

[Liza]

I think they prefer some shade and humidity, mine have grown a new root attached to the old one.

[Brengirl]

Same as me Bigmall. My oriiginal roots are in the greenhouse but I have noticed signs of activity so I shall ignore them again. Just see if I care !

[gojiberry]

I have a couple of pots of ginger in the greenhouse. I usually grow some each year but don't get much of an increase in crop. Not worth growing any this year as it is getting to near winter.

Ian

[maytreefrannie]

Mine didn't do anything - 4 roots, soaked overnight and sown in March.

I wouldn't mind trying again though.

[Jeanied]

I have a couple of pots of ginger in the greenhouse. I usually grow some each year but don't get much of an increase in crop. Not worth growing any this year as it is getting to near winter.

Ian

So how do you harvest it, Ian? Do you let the top die down or do you cut it off? I don't want to turf my tall one out of the pot until the root has had some chance of increasing in size.