Posted by Sacha on August 4, 2011, 9:08 am
I bought a piece of ginger a while ago, parked it near the cooker in a
dish and forgot all about it. It's shooting! What am I likely to grow
if I plant it up?!
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
Posted by Martin Brown on August 4, 2011, 9:25 am
On 04/08/2011 14:08, Sacha wrote:
> I bought a piece of ginger a while ago, parked it near the cooker in a
> dish and forgot all about it. It's shooting! What am I likely to grow if
> I plant it up?!
Decent sized pot of peaty compost and plenty of liquid feed...
Mostly leaves and if it gets going some nice tender shoots (which can be
boiled and eaten as a Japanese delicacy if you like hot foods). The
young stems are thick, juicy and a rather appealing pinkish colour.
I have never flowered it in my greenhouse, but have grown it for a few
years in with the tomatoes for the fresh ginger shoots. It needs serious
greenhouse heat fertiliser a bit more so than tomatoes and plenty of
humidity and strong light - quite an attractive foliage plant.
Top growth dies in winter but the root gets bigger each year.
Regards,
Martin Brown
Posted by mogga on August 4, 2011, 9:39 am
On Thu, 04 Aug 2011 14:25:50 +0100, Martin Brown
>On 04/08/2011 14:08, Sacha wrote:
>> I bought a piece of ginger a while ago, parked it near the cooker in a
>> dish and forgot all about it. It's shooting! What am I likely to grow if
>> I plant it up?!
>Decent sized pot of peaty compost and plenty of liquid feed...
>Mostly leaves and if it gets going some nice tender shoots (which can be
>boiled and eaten as a Japanese delicacy if you like hot foods). The
>young stems are thick, juicy and a rather appealing pinkish colour.
>I have never flowered it in my greenhouse, but have grown it for a few
>years in with the tomatoes for the fresh ginger shoots. It needs serious
>greenhouse heat fertiliser a bit more so than tomatoes and plenty of
>humidity and strong light - quite an attractive foliage plant.
>Top growth dies in winter but the root gets bigger each year.
>Regards,
>Martin Brown
I bought 29ps worth of exotic veg from Morrisons.
It's galangal (enough for about a months worth of thai curry) so I've
put three pieces in a pot of compost.
I've grown ginger in the past from the shops so I assume this will
grow too.
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http://www.voucherfreebies.co.uk
Posted by Jake on August 4, 2011, 9:49 am
>I bought a piece of ginger a while ago, parked it near the cooker in a
>dish and forgot all about it. It's shooting! What am I likely to grow
>if I plant it up?!
If you mean a "finger" of green ginger from a supermarket, you could
try potting it up, initially in a 20cm pot, so that the shoot is just
above "ground level". Feed it every couple of weeks with a general
indoor plant food. It'll need a minimum temperature of 28C and plenty
of light. If it keeps on growing you may need to pot on into a bigger
pot (35cm or more) but don't be tempted to put it outside.
In the autumn, reduce the watering and let it dry. For some reason
this promotes formation of rhizomes. Don't expect too many of these as
it's very difficult to provide the right growing conditions in this
country. With luck you might be able to harvest some rhizomes in late
autumn to cook things with.
Reminds me to dig out my mother's recipe for the so-called "ginger
plant" from which she used to make ginger beer.
Cheers
Jake
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Gardening at the dry end (east) of Swansea Bay
in between reading anything by JRR Tolkien.
www.rivendell.org.uk
Posted by JonH on August 5, 2011, 2:38 pm
>>I bought a piece of ginger a while ago, parked it near the cooker in a
>>dish and forgot all about it. It's shooting! What am I likely to grow
>>if I plant it up?!
>If you mean a "finger" of green ginger from a supermarket, you could
>try potting it up, initially in a 20cm pot, so that the shoot is just
>above "ground level". Feed it every couple of weeks with a general
>indoor plant food. It'll need a minimum temperature of 28C and plenty
>of light. If it keeps on growing you may need to pot on into a bigger
>pot (35cm or more) but don't be tempted to put it outside.
>In the autumn, reduce the watering and let it dry. For some reason
>this promotes formation of rhizomes. Don't expect too many of these as
>it's very difficult to provide the right growing conditions in this
>country. With luck you might be able to harvest some rhizomes in late
>autumn to cook things with.
>Reminds me to dig out my mother's recipe for the so-called "ginger
>plant" from which she used to make ginger beer.
>Cheers
>Jake
>==============================================
>Gardening at the dry end (east) of Swansea Bay
>in between reading anything by JRR Tolkien.
>www.rivendell.org.uk
Hokaaay. As a result of bad procurement planning and inadeqauet meal
planning, I found today that I had a substantial piece of Ginger
languishing in my kitchen, somewhat dried out and unlikely to be used
any time soon. It has two shoots, one significant, the other less
welll developed.
I've just put it in a large plastic pot filled with GP compost (Erin),
both shoots protruding, watered it in and put it under the staging in
the greenhouse. There's no significant investment in the experiment
and we'll see what happens.
Regards
JonH
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> dish and forgot all about it. It's shooting! What am I likely to grow if
> I plant it up?!