Has anyone ever planted ginger?

[BlueNightingale]

I am really dependent on ginger for both kimchi and when I'm suffering inflammation.

I used it today to prevent the flu because everyone is getting sick and I have a low grade fever. I found a couple of little buds and I think I will plant it.

I have never grown ginger and I'm a little intimidated. Has anyone had experience growing ginger from the little sprouted buds?

 

[Muna]

I grow it, what part of the country do you live in? It takes like 10 months to fully grow, do you have that kind of time? Or do you want to grow it indoors? You can also do that I think.

You can browse through some videos on Youtube to get more familar with it. I found them to be no trouble at all, and no pests want to be bothered with them so you would likely have some good luck with growing them.

 

[Muna]

I never tried this method but here is a video I remember when I was looking into growing Ginger.

And Ginger takes awhile to sprout, so dont get fret if you don't see anything for awhile, it can take up to two months, but if you use a seedling heat mat it will help.

Heres another just telling you how to start it indoors which I found helpful

 

[BlueNightingale]

I grow it, what part of the country do you live in? It takes like 10 months to fully grow, do you have that kind of time? Or do you want to grow it indoors? You can also do that I think.

You can browse through some videos on Youtube to get more familar with it. I found them to be no trouble at all, and no pests want to be bothered with them so you would likely have some good luck with growing them.

USA, Zone 4A.

I can't watch it just yet and I haven't really looked on YouTube because I'm on a small data plan but maybe I'll see if I can find a book on Kindle.

I had no idea it takes ten months. That's wild.

...do I get as much in the thumbnail for that first one?

 

[quietthinker]

I am really dependent on ginger for both kimchi and when I'm suffering inflammation.

I used it today to prevent the flu because everyone is getting sick and I have a low grade fever. I found a couple of little buds and I think I will plant it.

I have never grown ginger and I'm a little intimidated. Has anyone had experience growing ginger from the little sprouted buds?

I grow both ginger, galangal and turmeric by the bucket load. It grows easy with little or no maintenance in the tropics. I just stick the pieces in the ground and away they go. Initially they need water but once the root is established it hangs on.
All this is going on while they compete with other roots in the ground. If it is grown in dedicated beds it'll do even better and power away quickly.

 

[Muna]

USA, Zone 4A.

I can't watch it just yet and I haven't really looked on YouTube because I'm on a small data plan but maybe I'll see if I can find a book on Kindle.

I had no idea it takes ten months. That's wild.

...do I get as much in the thumbnail for that first one?

Gees, I have no idea, haha I totally screwed up the timing of my ginger this year, starting it way too late. and I had such a big box of it from last year, and it stored great for me in a box on the porch throughout the cooler months,

You are definitely in a colder climate zone which is not optimal for growing Ginger, since it is a tropical plant but people still say you can grow it in doors (which I have not done from seed to full plant). Couldn't hurt to try.

You can always just give a few plants a try and see how that goes for you to determine whether growing it would be right for your conditions.

I think I will try to grow them indoors (just to see how that goes for us) this next season Lord willing.

Heck, it might be more worth it to just buy Ginger in bulk and freeze it, or make Ginger juice and can it (if used just for recipes only). I love fresh garlic, but I am rethinking using up space for Garlic, because I can just buy bulk freeze dried garlic and be done with it. I am becoming increasingly lazy as far as gardening goes, I just cannot physically do it anymore. So I need to be more selective in what I grow now, I thought I was going to die pulling up the peanuts this afternoon. I don't think I can do this anymore.

 

[BlueNightingale]

Gees, I have no idea, haha I totally screwed up the timing of my ginger this year, starting it way too late. and I had such a big box of it from last year, and it stored great for me in a box on the porch throughout the cooler months,

You are definitely in a colder climate zone which is not optimal for growing Ginger, since it is a tropical plant but people still say you can grow it in doors (which I have not done from seed to full plant). Couldn't hurt to try.

You can always just give a few plants a try and see how that goes for you to determine whether growing it would be right for your conditions.

I think I will try to grow them indoors (just to see how that goes for us) this next season Lord willing.

Heck, it might be more worth it to just buy Ginger in bulk and freeze it, or make Ginger juice and can it (if used just for recipes only). I love fresh garlic, but I am rethinking using up space for Garlic, because I can just buy bulk freeze dried garlic and be done with it. I am becoming increasingly lazy as far as gardening goes, I just cannot physically do it anymore. So I need to be more selective in what I grow now, I thought I was going to die pulling up the peanuts this afternoon. I don't think I can do this anymore.

I think I will try to do the same. I was worried about the water, and it does say they will die if they reach under 50 degrees.

But most of my herbs die during the winter. Especially when it drops down -20. Lol

I should probably just take the plunge on a grow tent for ginger and a few things in winter. I really don't want to. I heard a story about a gardener that got raided because his house had grow lights and they thought he was growing marijuana, which he wasn't, but ever since then I've been afraid of growing tomatoes in winter.

Have you tried garlic braiding? It looks so cool. Peanuts do sound tedious. Especially to me.

 

[Muna]

I think I will try to do the same. I was worried about the water, and it does say they will die if they reach under 50 degrees.

But most of my herbs die during the winter. Especially when it drops down -20. Lol

I should probably just take the plunge on a grow tent for ginger and a few things in winter. I really don't want to. I heard a story about a gardener that got raided because his house had grow lights and they thought he was growing marijuana, which he wasn't, but ever since then I've been afraid of growing tomatoes in winter.

Have you tried garlic braiding? It looks so cool. Peanuts do sound tedious. Especially to me.

-20? Oh man, I would hate to live where you are, although the 120 degree heat here (I exaggerate because it sure feels like it) is awful. I can't handle the heat so much anymore.

And if they do not have a reasonable cause to believe you are growing illegal substances and enter your premises like tha the police can be sued for doing that. So, its actually worth the risk in either case

Nuffin to see here, time to pay up (haha )

And garlic braiding is tedious peanuts are the easiest thing on earth to grow, but the raw peanut seed were something like $10 for 10 raw ballpark peanuts. I never heard of them being so high. Replanting them yeilded almost 6 pounds of them but that would be some expensive peanut butter huh? They are worth less as peanut butter than just reselling them. I am just using them as a cover crop on all the bed for next year to preserve the beds from heat, in case we just might end up planting sometime in the future (which I doubt though).

Try it DL, Ginger is very easy, keeps really well and if you use it you won't be disappointed. Its a very pretty ornamental plant.

 

[JohnDB]

Object of the exercise with ginger is the biggest bulbs possible so when you peel and mince it there won't be so much work to get a small amount.

Nutrient dependent too. Needing fertilizers.

Takes a long time....often getting small bulbs.

But if you do get a bunch....ginger beer!

 

[JohnDB]

For those who don't know....

Ginger beer is sweet and spicy from the ginger and barely alcoholic enough to preserve the drink for long periods.

It can be strongly alcoholic....but it's not as drinkable when so much sugar is used. And it's supposed to be drinkable like...a lot.

 

[BlueNightingale]

Object of the exercise with ginger is the biggest bulbs possible so when you peel and mince it there won't be so much work to get a small amount.

Nutrient dependent too. Needing fertilizers.

Takes a long time....often getting small bulbs.

But if you do get a bunch....ginger beer!

Thank you!

We use fish emulsion every couple of weeks. Think that would work?

Ginger beer is part of the plan, sort of. I have a hard time fermenting in the winter. I think it is just too cold. I did make kombucha, but to be fully honest I sort of hate the tartness, and my milk kefir dies in the winter- and water kefir never carbonates and I get overwhelmed and dump it.

Kimchi never fails me. It's the golden child of fermentation in my house.

-20? Oh man, I would hate to live where you are, although the 120 degree heat here (I exaggerate because it sure feels like it) is awful. I can't handle the heat so much anymore.

And if they do not have a reasonable cause to believe you are growing illegal substances and enter your premises like tha the police can be sued for doing that. So, its actually worth the risk in either case

Nuffin to see here, time to pay up (haha )

And garlic braiding is tedious peanuts are the easiest thing on earth to grow, but the raw peanut seed were something like $10 for 10 raw ballpark peanuts. I never heard of them being so high. Replanting them yeilded almost 6 pounds of them but that would be some expensive peanut butter huh? They are worth less as peanut butter than just reselling them. I am just using them as a cover crop on all the bed for next year to preserve the beds from heat, in case we just might end up planting sometime in the future (which I doubt though).

Try it DL, Ginger is very easy, keeps really well and if you use it you won't be disappointed. Its a very pretty ornamental plant.

Lol, sometimes it doesn't seem worth it, does it,?


Everyone says, "You should grow potatoes." I say, "Why would I do that when a bag of potatoes is sometimes $2.50?" Potatoes are practically free at the right time. That's a lot of effort and our soil mix is expensive. Except ube. I might do ube.

I like growing things that I can't buy, grows without a lot of attention, or would buy pretty routinely.

 

[BlueNightingale]

I should mention I have a nearby family member, who forages, and that makes me nervous.

From time to time, I like to send something small and extra. Not that they are asking, but I prefer to, a jar of soup or something I've been growing. The more I can grow, the more I can give, so the yield matters more to me.

 

[Muna]

Thank you!

We use fish emulsion every couple of weeks. Think that would work?

Ginger beer is part of the plan, sort of. I have a hard time fermenting in the winter. I think it is just too cold. I did make kombucha, but to be fully honest I sort of hate the tartness, and my milk kefir dies in the winter- and water kefir never carbonates and I get overwhelmed and dump it.

Kimchi never fails me. It's the golden child of fermentation in my house.


Lol, sometimes it doesn't seem worth it, does it,?


Everyone says, "You should grow potatoes." I say, "Why would I do that when a bag of potatoes is sometimes $2.50?" Potatoes are practically free at the right time. That's a lot of effort and our soil mix is expensive. Except ube. I might do ube.

I like growing things that I can't buy, grows without a lot of attention, or would buy pretty routinely.

We grow potatoes but the thing is with them is that they are prone to disease (think about the Potato famine of 1845-1852) seven years? Can you imagine life without french fries for seven years? Me neither.

But with everything else in the garden you can typically rotate the crops yearly, like if you planted onions in one place you could plant something else there and then the following year you could replant onions there again if you wanted to. But with Potatoes that is not so much the case, you need to typically rotate that plot to at the least three seasons (preferably 4) and they are the much preferred crop to grow. You can just do so much with them, just to list the basics, baked potatoes, fried stovetop potatoes, french fries, scallop potatoes, mash potatoes, and my husbands go to, is gnocchis, I make those in bulk and fill freezer bags full of those for him to go along side his ribeyes, he has this thing for that combo for whatever reason. So it really stinks that they cannot be rotated much sooner without the expected problems that come with doing that. I don't think you have to be as careful with sweet potatoes though, and we grow those and they are zero trouble, get huge, but the viney mess in the soil is awful and I do not have the back to get down in there and pull all of those up.

But I will say that when we went from grocery store potatoes to growing them, the taste is so much better (who would have thunk'd it?) And so far our favorites (as we both agree) are Kennebec's. We did purchase some Elbas this year which are supposed to be one of the best storage potatoes (but I havent tasted them to see if they are any better or worse than anything else I have tried).

But you are right, I wouldn't do potatoes for the cost saving so much as I do it for the preseving the seed and having these things in an economic down turn. But that rotation issue (and limited places to plant them) make the another new issue for us.

And you know, I really liked the Kimchi I had purchased somewhere but when I actually made it myself I didn't like it (Thats probably because I do not have the "Kimchi touch") haha. I probably would have tried to master it but the time to make it and the process makes doing that so undesirable to me, at least nowadays, I can't stand at the kitchen counter too long as once used to, oldness is setting in, so I have to miss out on some of the fun stuff.

Its good enough that I can live through your experimentations DL

 

[Jay Ross]

When I first saw this thread, I thought of trying to plant Ginger the cat, but I did not want to get shredded by her response or Flossy's.

 

[JohnDB]

Thank you!

We use fish emulsion every couple of weeks. Think that would work?

Ginger beer is part of the plan, sort of. I have a hard time fermenting in the winter. I think it is just too cold. I did make kombucha, but to be fully honest I sort of hate the tartness, and my milk kefir dies in the winter- and water kefir never carbonates and I get overwhelmed and dump it.

Kimchi never fails me. It's the golden child of fermentation in my house.


Lol, sometimes it doesn't seem worth it, does it,?


Everyone says, "You should grow potatoes." I say, "Why would I do that when a bag of potatoes is sometimes $2.50?" Potatoes are practically free at the right time. That's a lot of effort and our soil mix is expensive. Except ube. I might do ube.

I like growing things that I can't buy, grows without a lot of attention, or would buy pretty routinely.

Ginger usually is fairly inexpensive as well....
But it can get pricey when buying by the pound. And it requires at least 10 months....of course it's mostly about gardening space....it's a good crop to grow in spare area not needing much work or any tending. You can start it long before you take outside..

When gardening space is at a premium....that's where you go for high cash crops over anything else....of course desire can make it worth it.

I like and use a lot of fresh herbs. Basil, thyme, parsley, oregano, sage, chives and etc. I turn all into pesto and freeze so I can have them year round. Do you have any idea what high quality pesto costs these days? Or what they charge for fresh herbs....and it's always by the ounce....not by pounds. Chives go year round....so I don't freeze those.

I've tried garlic....it failed. Tried shallots....they weren't much of a success....but got enough to eat but the bulbs were expensive. Tried green peas this year....they were woody and tough instead of sweet.
My tomatoes barely produced....
BUT
I got enough grapes to make one jar of jelly. Hoping for more next year.
I'm hoping for a few pecans this year....most have fallen off already. So probably won't be many if I do get any.

 

[BlueNightingale]

Ginger usually is fairly inexpensive as well....
But it can get pricey when buying by the pound. And it requires at least 10 months....of course it's mostly about gardening space....it's a good crop to grow in spare area not needing much work or any tending. You can start it long before you take outside..

When gardening space is at a premium....that's where you go for high cash crops over anything else....of course desire can make it worth it.

I like and use a lot of fresh herbs. Basil, thyme, parsley, oregano, sage, chives and etc. I turn all into pesto and freeze so I can have them year round. Do you have any idea what high quality pesto costs these days? Or what they charge for fresh herbs....and it's always by the ounce....not by pounds. Chives go year round....so I don't freeze those.

I've tried garlic....it failed. Tried shallots....they weren't much of a success....but got enough to eat but the bulbs were expensive. Tried green peas this year....they were woody and tough instead of sweet.
My tomatoes barely produced....
BUT
I got enough grapes to make one jar of jelly. Hoping for more next year.
I'm hoping for a few pecans this year....most have fallen off already. So probably won't be many if I do get any.

Herbs are way overpriced in a lot of places. Here, we just can't buy fresh herbs. They just don't sell well enough to make it profitable. So I grew my own.

It sounds like your snap peas had too much heat this year and maybe not enough pollinators out for your tomatoes.

Lol I want to grow a grape arbor for shade and a place to sit, but not until we get a bathouse to take care of the mosquitos. I won't even go outside.