Growing Ginger

pickledtink

I usually just bung a bit of supermarket bought ginger in a pot when it starts to sprout .

Jake'sGran

Ginger is very easy to grow. Good job, as my son asked me to grow it for him. This year I grew many different chilli types plus tomatoes for him. I can't remember what I did with the ginger but I will have another go at it. It is extremely good for you. My son wants it for his curries but it is good for so many things; travel sickness and stomach problems being two I can think of.
Not sure about Lemon Grass but it will be on the Internet somewhere.

savvy

Ah brilliant thanks for this, we love thai cooking which uses both of these, but ginger is also good in juices and smoothies

kings981

After Watching Grow Your Own Drugs they other day, where the guy reckoned you can grow ginger in a pot thought I would give it a go.

Does anyone have anu advice/success on this?

Is it worthwhile doing?

Rummer

This might help?
http://www.theepicentre.com/Spices/ginger3.html

Rummer

In fact this link looks better:

http://www.tropicalpermaculture.com/growing-ginger.html

sonas_baby

I stuck some ginger in a pot last year and got some leaves. When they died down I dug them up and had mini ginger roots, which I just replanted. I now have a shoot coming up again. I will check out the links posted as the only ones I found were american about growing it out doors and leaving it 2 years to harvest, but when established that was you ginger just to dig up when you needed it. In Scotland that is never going to happen so I thought big pots.

kings981

Think I may just bung some in a pot on a windowsill and see what happens. Shame I don't have a greenhouse!

Finefoot

It takes a long time to mature, especially in the english sorry, scottish climate. It is a tropical plant, but, there is a banana tree with fruit in Peterborough, so you never know.............

arkonite_babe

We have a thread similar to this already, I'll add your query to it so all the replies are together. Posts are listed in date order so you'll need to read from the beginning to catch up