Specialty Gardening: Home is where the Fragrance is!, 1 by violabird

violabird wrote:
The only thing I wonder about is if y'all are covering up the rizome. They like to be exposed asap to the warmth to get them growing, so I keep the tops uncovered. Later I usually throw some horse manure on top but this year I didn't get to it. They could also be too crowded, give them about 1 foot apart or they start growing over themselves, I usually divide every year in March then just cover them back with their dead stalks to start getting the warmth to grow. They do like water, but this year they sure didn't get much until recently, they usually start blooming at the end of August for me with proper watering. Hope this helps, I'd be enjoying them more if the nights weren't so dang cold now.

Chantell, thanks for the reply, I was starting to think y'all forgot me--I'm glad the plants didn't!

...adding hi Ken! Lucky you to be so close to Nadine's gingers, I know I'd be in heaven. My brugs are a sorry lot too, I haven't been here to tend them.