I bought and forgot that I had bought some ginger before Christmas. I
see that it has put out a very nice little green shoot on the side, can
I plant this?

judith lea wrote:
I bought and forgot that I had bought some ginger before Christmas. I
see that it has put out a very nice little green shoot on the side,
can I plant this?

Yes... when i have tried it you get a splendid long shoot, almost ba,boo
like. But then it rots on me. I have tried all variations of light and water
i can manage here.

Any tips would be great as this is one plant that has me stumped... (long
shoot is good in tea and cooking if you get it before it rots)

Les


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judith lea wrote:
I bought and forgot that I had bought some ginger before Christmas. I
see that it has put out a very nice little green shoot on the side,
can I plant this?

Yes... when i have tried it you get a splendid long shoot, almost ba,boo
like. But then it rots on me. I have tried all variations of light and
water i can manage here.

Any tips would be great as this is one plant that has me stumped... (long
shoot is good in tea and cooking if you get it before it rots)

You can plant pretty much anything. I planted my sister's hamster when I was
8

"Les Hemmings" wrote in message
...
judith lea wrote:
I bought and forgot that I had bought some ginger before Christmas. I
see that it has put out a very nice little green shoot on the side,
can I plant this?

Yes... when i have tried it you get a splendid long shoot, almost ba,boo
like. But then it rots on me. I have tried all variations of light and
water
i can manage here.

Any tips would be great as this is one plant that has me stumped... (long
shoot is good in tea and cooking if you get it before it rots)

Les


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Les Hemmings a.a #2251 SA

Ginger for cooking needs tropical conditions with quite high light levals,
heat and humidity, its also very boring as a flowering plant as the clones
used are big on tubers and poor on top growth. the flowers are at ground
leval I think rather than at the top as per Hedychium (which also taste and
smell of ginger but not as strong)

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"Les Hemmings" wrote in message
...
judith lea wrote:
I bought and forgot that I had bought some ginger before Christmas. I
see that it has put out a very nice little green shoot on the side,
can I plant this?

Yes... when i have tried it you get a splendid long shoot, almost ba,boo
like. But then it rots on me. I have tried all variations of light and
water i can manage here.

Any tips would be great as this is one plant that has me stumped... (long
shoot is good in tea and cooking if you get it before it rots)

Les


I'm glad it's not just me. Almost exactly the same thing happened when I
tried planting ginger. A nice impressive plant above the ground, but no
roots even remotely worth harvesting. Anyone know the secret?

Adam

"judith lea" asked:
I bought and forgot that I had bought some ginger before Christmas. I
see that it has put out a very nice little green shoot on the side, can
I plant this?
---
Yes now. Indoors, in a pot using two parts peat, one part loam and one part
sharp sand. The ginger rhizome should be 3/4 buried lengthways in the
compost and grown indoors in a sunny position until July and August when it
can be grown outside. Water well during the summer months. Only give it
liquid manure, (Baby Bio will do), when it is in flower. The flower/s, if
you are very lucky, will be white and very fragrant.

MikeCT

MikeCT wrote:
"judith lea" asked:
I bought and forgot that I had bought some ginger before Christmas. I see
that it has put out a very nice little green shoot on the
side, can I plant this?
---
Yes now. Indoors, in a pot using two parts peat, one part loam and
one part sharp sand. The ginger rhizome should be 3/4 buried
lengthways in the compost and grown indoors in a sunny position until
July and August when it can be grown outside. Water well during the
summer months. Only give it liquid manure, (Baby Bio will do), when
it is in flower. The flower/s, if you are very lucky, will be white
and very fragrant.
MikeCT

Perhaps using bog standard multi pourpose compost is where i'm going wrong.
And burying it too deep too..

Will try it out next spring when the light levels rise a bit...

Les


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"judith lea" wrote in message
ps.com...
I bought and forgot that I had bought some ginger before Christmas. I
see that it has put out a very nice little green shoot on the side, can
I plant this?


I can't add much to what other posters have said but I can get it to grow
fine. Lots of small green shoots and that's it. It needs several years to
get established (like all Gingers). Using high base heat certainly improves
things. It's fun but much better to grow other gingers where you should get
nice scented large flowers.

"judith lea" wrote in message
ps.com...
I bought and forgot that I had bought some ginger before Christmas. I
see that it has put out a very nice little green shoot on the side, can
I plant this?

http://www.plantcultures.org.uk/plan...r_grow_it.html
was a handy resource

"judith lea" wrote in message
ps.com...
I bought and forgot that I had bought some ginger before Christmas. I
see that it has put out a very nice little green shoot on the side, can
I plant this?

You have just reminded me, I noticed some green shoots coming out of the
bird feeder, all the rain must have started the seed thinking it should
start growing!

Alan

Rupert (W.Yorkshire) wrote:
"judith lea" wrote in message
ps.com...
I bought and forgot that I had bought some ginger before Christmas. I
see that it has put out a very nice little green shoot on the side, can
I plant this?


I can't add much to what other posters have said but I can get it to grow
fine. Lots of small green shoots and that's it. It needs several years to
get established (like all Gingers). Using high base heat certainly improves
things. It's fun but much better to grow other gingers where you should get
nice scented large flowers.

Thank you to everyone who replied, I have decided to plant it indoors
if only as a nice plant - BUT I am going to buy another one and keep it
in a jar with peat at the bottom and see what happens to that. Thank
you all.

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"Alan Holmes" wrote:


"judith lea" wrote in message
ps.com...
I bought and forgot that I had bought some ginger before Christmas. I
see that it has put out a very nice little green shoot on the side, can
I plant this?

You have just reminded me, I noticed some green shoots coming out of the
bird feeder, all the rain must have started the seed thinking it should
start growing!


I just emptied a mini lawn out of the one outside my study window today,
grass shoots and all. When I looked closely, the whole thing was one mat of
roots in its plastic tube.
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South Devon
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I bought and forgot that I had bought some ginger before
Christmas.

Madhur Jaffrey recommended keeping root ginger in a pot of moist
compost,
to keep it fresh.

I keep any ginger that I can't use immediately in a jar of sherry in
the fridge - works well as I can then use both the remaining ginger
and the flavoured sherry in cooking later on..

Farm1 wrote:
I keep any ginger that I can't use immediately in a jar of sherry in
the fridge - works well as I can then use both the remaining ginger
and the flavoured sherry in cooking later on..

That sounds good, instead of Ginger Beer, Ginger Sherry, you might have
found a market opportunity there!

Judith at home in England

"judith lea" wrote in message
Farm1 wrote:
I keep any ginger that I can't use immediately in a jar of sherry
in
the fridge - works well as I can then use both the remaining
ginger
and the flavoured sherry in cooking later on..

That sounds good, instead of Ginger Beer, Ginger Sherry, you might
have
found a market opportunity there!

:-)) I don't know that I'd actually like to drink the stuff (and I
drink so little that I could always name the date when I've been
drinking if I was ever to be breathalised by the police), but it IS a
nice addition to Asian (not Indian Sub continent) recipes and cold
zucchini soup in summer and a few other hot soups in winter.