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  • From: Owsley lucy <boulderbelt AT embarqmail.com>
  • To: Lova Andriamanjay <lova.andriamanjay AT gmail.com>, Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Ginger
  • Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 11:37:32 -0400

I use rhizomes i got from the grocery 2 years ago and got ginger that looked like Alison's. Granted I grew these in a container (a 50 gallon plastic horse trough) so if there was any risk of soil born disease passing to my soils I would not know it (but i figure few tropical diseases would last in my soils due to different chemistries and the fact we have winter).

I also will say i had no clue what I was doing when I planted the rhizomes in the horse trough, I believe, in May. It was a wet but not terribly hot summer and other than being in a container the ginger got no other protection-it was not in a hoophouse. We allowed to to go through several 40 degree nights before it was harvested which I have read is the wrong thing to do. But than what I read after the fact shows that I did a lot of thing wrong, in fact I probably did more things wrong than right and I still got a salable crop (which I undercharged horribly for-IIRC I got about $8 a pound at the farmers market, though most went to my CSA members). 

My conclusion is that ginger is a very forgiving crop and we all should be growing it.
On Oct 6, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Lova Andriamanjay wrote:

For guys who have grown ginger, do you think using grocery store rhizomes would work as well as starts bought specifically for this purpose?

Thanks!

Lova Andriamanjay




Lucy Goodman
Boulder Belt Eco-Farm
Eaton, OH







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