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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? Lucy Goodman Boulder Belt Eco-Farm Eaton, OH |
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[Market-farming] Ginger and ?trees??,
Pam Twin Oaks, 10/05/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Ginger,
Wiediger, Alison, 10/05/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Ginger,
Lova Andriamanjay, 10/06/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Ginger, Wiediger, Alison, 10/06/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Ginger,
Owsley lucy, 10/06/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Ginger, Road's End Farm, 10/06/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Ginger,
Lova Andriamanjay, 10/06/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Ginger,
Wiediger, Alison, 10/05/2011
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