Potato v.s. Ginger
 

Hi,

I got a question about ginger (the type that you buy at the gocery store).
I know that I can plant potato if they sprout (you know, when you buy a lot
on sale and you can't finish them it in time). What about ginger? Can I
just put it in the soil just like potato and except a harvest in October?

Thx,

Alex

Potato v.s. Ginger
 

"Alex Ng" wrote in message
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Hi,

I got a question about ginger (the type that you buy at the gocery store).
I know that I can plant potato if they sprout (you know, when you buy a
lot
on sale and you can't finish them it in time). What about ginger? Can I
just put it in the soil just like potato and except a harvest in October?

Thx,

Alex

Basically, yes. I just leave the store bought ginger on the porch then when
I notice it trying to sprout, break off that piece and plant it in a 4" pot,
keep it watered until it takes then in the ground it goes.......plant it in
a shady area though.......no direct sun. One store bought "root" will yield
many sprouts if you leave it outside out of direct sun.......just be
patient.

Potato v.s. Ginger
 

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(Alex Ng) wrote:

Hi,

I got a question about ginger (the type that you buy at the gocery store).
I know that I can plant potato if they sprout (you know, when you buy a lot
on sale and you can't finish them it in time). What about ginger? Can I
just put it in the soil just like potato and except a harvest in October?

Thx,

Alex

Ginger roots usually grow pretty easily. Easier than potatos from grocery
stories, which are often treated to retard sprouting.

But my ginger is a dwarf cultivar with varigated leaves. Very pretty
plant, it looks like a little stand of bamboo.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

Potato v.s. Ginger
 

What about ginger? Can I
just put it in the soil just like potato and except a harvest in October?


I did and it put up leaves, died down in the winter and is now putting up
leaves again. I haven't tried to harvest the root, but I assume if you plant
it in a place and a climate that makes it happy it'll perform for you. Just
break off a piece of the rhizome at the place where it thins out and plant
several a few inches deep. I live in z=one 8b or 9 (New Orleans.)

zemedelec

Potato v.s. Ginger
 

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 23:09:55 -0400, (Alex Ng)
wrote:

I got a question about ginger (the type that you buy at the gocery store).
I know that I can plant potato if they sprout (you know, when you buy a lot
on sale and you can't finish them it in time). What about ginger? Can I
just put it in the soil just like potato and except a harvest in October?

Not quite like a potato. If the ginger is plump and heavy (as opposed
to the dried-out wrinkly sort you often see left over in stores), and
you just leave it around (not refrigerated) it very well may start to
show little greenish-whitish bumps, which are the prospective leaf
shoots. Plant shallowly in light soil.

A search on "growing ginger" yields many results with detailed
directions.