I picked up the cutest little ginger root at the grocery store today and I thought I would plant it just to see what sprouted. Any suggestions on how to plant it, in what and what to expect as a result? I was just going to use it as a houseplant, not for propagation.
Thx.
Planting ginger root
When you plant it, plant it flat and just an inch or so under the surface of the soil. Does it already have sprouts?
Nope, no sprouts yet. Thx for the help!
I have done a few like this and although I get large green banana plant type foliage I have seen blooms. A friend did though. His turned out to be the hidden ginger with delicate small yellow blooms. Good luck and you will have to let us know how it does... pod
Need to proof read Edited to say I have NOT seen blooms on this one.
This message was edited Apr 18, 2007 8:28 PM
Take pictures! This is one of those things I want to try as well. I just want you to report the mistakes first! ;}
This is not the plant from the grocery store but butterfly ginger. ScotDeerie ~ you can see how large the plant gets in a bigger pot. http://davesgarden.com/journal/edit/showimage.php?eid=107163
This is why it is called butterfly ginger ~ beautiful fragrant blooms that appear to be floating after dark. http://davesgarden.com/journal/edit/showimage.php?eid=107165
I don't have a photo of the grocery store ginger but I have it in a 3 gallon pot. The pot is now oval shaped from the root system. The smaller pot will keep it a more manageable size. I leave them out in my winter and the tops die down. The plant is just now putting on new spring growth.
One of my herbal references indicate that all ginger roots are edible but have varying degrees of zing.
Wow, pod! That's beautiful. Maybe I'll have to drop by the grocery today. Don't you just bury a bit of the root about the size of your thumb?
Whoa there girl. The butterfly ginger didn't come from the grocery store. The foliage on the grocery store ginger is similar but that plant has never bloomed for me. Why I keep it around, I am not sure.
I buried the whole ginger palm as it put up shoots from different spots around the ginger, filling the whole pot.
The butterfly ginger was given to me by a friend here. I will gladly share some but am not sure if it will produce blooms the first year if it is uprooted this time of spring.
Okay, I have it straight now. Don't go pulling it up just yet -- right now I don't even know where I'd put it! Sometime when you're thinning it out anyway, let me know (if you remember -- I tend to mean to do things, then I'll sleep and forget all about it).
It really would be nice to grow some for the kitchen, though. I mean to cook with all these things, then I get so tired from gardening I pop in a TV dinner... bad girl... bad brigidlily...
Not bad at all. LOL Easily handled, just chop up a few chives or thyme or herb of choice and sprinkle it on that quick meal. Can't hurt it.
I had sincere intentions of getting the ginger out of the barrel half but didn't make it yet. When I do, I'll let you know.
ScotDeerie ~ have you potted up the ginger yet?