RE: ginger

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 > > > >

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