My gingers have multiplied so much I am having to thin them out, and the discard pile is quite high.
(Yes, I'd love to give them to a ginger lover, but the effort involved would just not be worth going through it.)
We have cattle and some erosion. We were thinking of putting the gingers in the runs to help slow the flow of water down. However, we do not know whether they might be poisonous to our cows or not.
Does anybody know? Cows are a fair sized investment and we surely do not want to endanger them.
Thanks for any help you might give.
Kay
The discards are mostly hedychiums, but also include a few costus and alpinias.
GOT A REAL SERIOUS QUESTION
How would you like some company to get rid of your discard pile?
I'm coming over to Harahan, LA to a wedding Sat nite & have Sat daytime free. I'd be glad to come help you clean up that pile, if you really want to get rid of it.
PS. Sorry I don't know anything about cattle but the bride lives in Carriere, MS.
Gingers aren't toxic and my horses are always getting into discard piles, eating foliage from hedychiums, they don't seem to like the smell of some zingibers and some alpinias. From what we've experienced and from everything we've been told no ginger is toxic but, maybe someone else has heard otherwise?
Not much help I know :)
Liz
'Just to tell you how this saga turned out........all of the hedychium stalks that were spent were cut off and thrown into the washes made by erosion.
Smockette and her crew arrived from Texas in a pickup truck and an SUV. They hauled all of the gingers that I had dug up (except for the ones the ants got into) back to Texas. (Look out for them at the Texas roundup! I think they are going to be passing out gingers!)
They also brought me a HUGE banana shrub in bloom! Wow, does it ever smell good!
Thanks Linda!
Kay