growing ginger
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growing ginger
anyone got any experiance growing ginger?
the flowers look beautiful.
im going to try to grow it from ginger bought from the super market.
any advice would be much appriciated.
thanks.
the flowers look beautiful.
im going to try to grow it from ginger bought from the super market.
any advice would be much appriciated.
thanks.
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Re: growing ginger
It likes sandy shallow soil and warm conditions. I grew some in a pot in a greenouse once but the uk autumn/winter saw it off. You should be ok if you grow it like Iris plants.
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Re: growing ginger
I've tried and had little success. It needs a very temperate verging on tropical climate. as Davie Crockett above said, I left it one or two days late in the greenhouse and it was dead. Good luck! It's easy to grow, just not easy to keep alive :)
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Re: growing ginger
I grew it from supermarket bought ginger. Just took off a couple of the small nodule bits and stuck in a pot of probably cheap compost and placed on the windowsill. It grew really easily and continued to do so, growing very tall. It was only when I dug around to see how much gnger had grown that I killed it
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Re: growing ginger
Growing some at the moment and it's germinated after a short period in the propagator
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Re: growing ginger
Ooo - that sounds a good idea. I use ginger a lot and had never thought of trying to grow it.
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Re: growing ginger
If you have a look on www.yougrowgirl.com there's a ginger grow-along somewhere.
It seems that you just lay the rhizome on the soil and cover it lightly and then leave it to see what happens. I tried and failed
I think everyone else is right and you need tropical temperatures and climate to get it to grow.
It seems that you just lay the rhizome on the soil and cover it lightly and then leave it to see what happens. I tried and failed

I think everyone else is right and you need tropical temperatures and climate to get it to grow.
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Re: growing ginger
iv planted some that i bought from the supermarket.
ill take pictures to document what happens and post them on here.
ill take pictures to document what happens and post them on here.
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Re: growing ginger
Grew some in the polytunnel a few years ago but despite lots of leaves it didn't make much of a rhizome, and needed cossetting to make it through the winter - I wouldn't bother again.
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