Recent discussions about ginger (Zingiber P. Mill.) - member of the Zingiberaceae family

Re: Ginger Family

g'day bob, as far as i know the answer is no! if yo go to an organic food shop and buy some raw ginger corms then plant them you will have a never ending supply of it. i would suggest you look for gal-n-gal, it is the indonesian version of ginger for me the same taste, but then taste might depend on growing conditions? at least - 3

Re: Sick eggplants

old bed sheets or some loose hay over the top. once most plants reacn a height of say 1.7 meters they are getting out of the frost zone effects. now with edible ginger it dies off for winter so the frost won't affect it, but the ground temp will so if you mulch very heavily say a foot or thereabouts jsut before the end of autumn - 3

Re: fruit fly

pain. i have been trying to stop them for years. i make up a mix of 500ml water, 1 cup sugar or honey, tsp bakers yeast and tblsp powdered ginger (basically a ginger beer plant). i put the contents into plastic bottles and hang it on the tree. i drill several holes in the side with a 4mm drill. the contents ferment and - 2

Ginger Family

i have a decorative plant which is a member of the ginger family, can you use the plant in the same fashion as ginger? - 2

a ginger?

id please. i think ginger ...but.... ------------------------------------------------------------------- |filename: cimg1889.jpg | |download: http://www.gardenbanter.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid 985 | ------------------------------------------------------------------- - 2

Re: Sacred Bamboo - FarmI

thanks farmi, i only have a small garden - i suppose it is called a courtyard these days, so i won't put any kind of bamboo in there. would love to know more about this ginger meggs plant i saw. looks pretty. katherine - 1

How do I kill wild ginger ?

ginger said: this is an old tip that i've never had the occasion to test directly (but i will comment more after): drive a small spade down in one or two spots around one of your plants and cut a few roots. this might shock the plant into ripening the tomatoes. ok, this year one of the new varieties i was trying was not ripening - 1

Re: frost question

kylie, with those plants that wher dormant in winter they where covered conmpletely ie.,. the ginger as there was no top growth left. but with growing stuff like pumpkins and pawpaw i covered with enough of a loose layer to create a barrier of warmer air, this with heavily mulched root runs which kept the root runs warmer all helped. - 1

Re: Grey laundry water for garden watering?

ginger- 1

Re: Supersize me, go ahead... but I am not speaking English any more.

back to 80kg. now i am aware of what i eat. i avoid potatoes, bread in the evenings. i do have sweets from time to time, but only as a special treat. hot tea and ginger biscuits are my bane. i just realized that its a bad habit to - on a daily basis - eat a pack of chips or the crap they serve at fast food joints. it might - 1

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