ginger

From: "Dr. Guanghua Zhu" <gzhu at lehmann.mobot.org> on 1997.04.07 at 17:48:09(581) Dear all, I know we have some ginger experts on th list. Would you please help? Thank you very much. Guanghua +More > Date: Sun, 06 Apr 1997 08:09:10 -0700 > From: Mark Malmgren > Reply-to: travel@clemson.campus.mci.net > Organization: Small World Travel > To: zhu@mobot.org > Subject: ginger > I'm not a botanist...just a gardner and I have a question... > A freind went to the grocerty store and got a piece of ginger root...he > roted it and gave me some. Now it is doing VERY well in my > garden...growing and multiplying like crazy. I live in Upstate S. > Carolina where it gets down to 5 degrees in the winter and up to 100 in > the summers. > > Question: Can I harvest the roots for ginger? If so, how and when? > > Many thanks > > Mark Malmgren > > Guanghua Zhu Missouri Botanical Garden P. O. Box 299 St. Louis, MO 63166-0299, USA Phone: (314)577-9454 Fax: (314)577-9438

From: "Julius Boos" <ju-bo at msn.com> on 1997.04.08 at 01:48:03(584) ---------- Sent: Monday, April 07, 1997 1:48 PM To: Julius Boos +More Subject: Re: ginger Dear all, I know we have some ginger experts on th list. Would you please help? Thank you very much. Guanghua > Date: Sun, 06 Apr 1997 08:09:10 -0700 > From: Mark Malmgren > Reply-to: travel@clemson.campus.mci.net > Organization: Small World Travel > To: zhu@mobot.org > Subject: ginger > I'm not a botanist...just a gardner and I have a question... > A freind went to the grocerty store and got a piece of ginger root...he > roted it and gave me some. Now it is doing VERY well in my > garden...growing and multiplying like crazy. I live in Upstate S. > Carolina where it gets down to 5 degrees in the winter and up to 100 in > the summers. > > Question: Can I harvest the roots for ginger? If so, how and when? > > Many thanks > > Mark Malmgren > > Guanghua Zhu Missouri Botanical Garden P. O. Box 299 St. Louis, MO 63166-0299, USA Phone: (314)577-9454 Fax: (314)577-9438 Dear Mark and Guanghua, I`m NOT a ginger expert by any means, but can give a few ideas and suggestions that may be of interst-- I think that ginger grown for it`s rhizome may need a longer growing "season" than is available in upstate S. Carolina, but I`d try potting it, growing it for as long as possible[gingers go dormant after a growing season] then after the leaves[all of them ] are dry, I`d dig it up and see what it produced! If the rhizome was insignificant, I`d re-pot it, and grow it for another year, as it just may require more than one growing season to produce a sizeable rhizome. Maybe a true expert can correct or add to this! Good luck---Julius ju-bo@msn.com

From: nancy swell <swell at erols.com> on 1997.04.08 at 13:52:39(587) Sorry guys, I've always meant to grow it, but just haven't. I do use it a lot in cooking. The VERY best is stem ginger, which is harvested I guess, just as it gets growing so that you use the tender shoots. +More At 08:48 PM 4/7/97 -0500, you wrote: >---------- >From: aroid-l@mobot.org on behalf of Dr. Guanghua Zhu >Sent: Monday, April 07, 1997 1:48 PM >To: Julius Boos >Subject: Re: ginger > >Dear all, > >I know we have some ginger experts on th list. Would you please >help? Thank you very much. > >Guanghua > >> Date: Sun, 06 Apr 1997 08:09:10 -0700 >> From: Mark Malmgren >> Reply-to: travel@clemson.campus.mci.net >> Organization: Small World Travel >> To: zhu@mobot.org >> Subject: ginger > >> I'm not a botanist...just a gardner and I have a question... >> A freind went to the grocerty store and got a piece of ginger root...he >> roted it and gave me some. Now it is doing VERY well in my >> garden...growing and multiplying like crazy. I live in Upstate S. >> Carolina where it gets down to 5 degrees in the winter and up to 100 in >> the summers. >> >> Question: Can I harvest the roots for ginger? If so, how and when? >> >> Many thanks >> >> Mark Malmgren >> >> >Guanghua Zhu >Missouri Botanical Garden >P. O. Box 299 >St. Louis, MO 63166-0299, USA >Phone: (314)577-9454 >Fax: (314)577-9438 >Dear Mark and Guanghua, I`m NOT a ginger expert by any means, but can give a >few ideas and suggestions that may be of interst-- I think that ginger grown >for it`s rhizome may need a longer growing "season" than is available in >upstate S. Carolina, but I`d try potting it, growing it for as long as >possible[gingers go dormant after a growing season] then after the leaves[all >of them ] are dry, I`d dig it up and see what it produced! If the rhizome >was insignificant, I`d re-pot it, and grow it for another year, as it just may >require more than one growing season to produce a sizeable rhizome. Maybe a >true expert can correct or add to this! > Good luck---Julius ju-bo@msn.com > > > >

From: "Robert Wagner" <robwagner at robwagner.seanet.com> on 1997.04.09 at 15:26:21(592) Yes, you can harvest Ginger roots. For fully ripened Ginger, you let it grow to the end of the growing season--maybe even let the first winter frost knock down the tops. Let it dry off just a bit, and store it in a cool spot. For young Ginger, you harvest it after it has grown some new rhizomes but before it is fully ripe and while the tops are still green. You probably have Zingiber officionalis--common culinary Ginger. It should have no trouble overwintering as long as the soil doesn't freeze--try giving it a bit of a mulch if that's a problem. Even hardier is Z. myoga, Japanese Ginger, which will probably overwinter in the Mid-Atlantic states. Like most Gingers, they like hot summers, rich, moist soil, and cool dry winters. Given these conditions you should easily be able to get them to harvestable size. Culinary Ginger is a shy bloomer, but the blossoms are cute. Most of its relations are more generous with their exotically beautiful flowers. You'll notice that the foliage is rather handsome, too. Robert +More (who was badly smitten by Gingers a few seasons ago and has a garden full of them) > > I'm not a botanist...just a gardner and I have a question... > > A freind went to the grocerty store and got a piece of ginger root...he > > roted it and gave me some. Now it is doing VERY well in my > > garden...growing and multiplying like crazy. I live in Upstate S. > > Carolina where it gets down to 5 degrees in the winter and up to 100 in > > the summers. > > > > Question: Can I harvest the roots for ginger? If so, how and when? > > > > Many thanks > > > > Mark Malmgren > > > > > Guanghua Zhu > Missouri Botanical Garden > P. O. Box 299 > St. Louis, MO 63166-0299, USA > Phone: (314)577-9454 > Fax: (314)577-9438 >

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